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The Government will provide financial support to the smaller industries to set up Effluent Treatment Plants (ETP), said State Minister for Environment & Forest Advocate Mostafizur Rahman.

He was addressing a discussion organised by Bangladesh chamber of Industries (BCI) on May 02.

With a vision to create awareness of noise and air pollution and campaign against traffic snarls in the Dhaka city, a cycle race will be held in the capital city on May Day.

Punjab government has evolved a comprehensive programme costing more than Rs 1 billion to cope with the increasing level of pollution on account of increasing trend of population, industrial development and vehicles in the province.

Nowadays pollution levels in the urban town areas is constantly increasing and due to global warming, altering seasons and indifferent climatic conditions prevail. It is a known fact the increasing vehicles on the road is also a cause for pollution.

Noted environmentalist and former Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Dr A N Yellappa Reddy has said that the alignment issue should not be allowed to stall the Namma Metro project at the present juncture.

As the action is still awaited even after one month of the delivery of Environmental Protection Orders (EPOs) to owners, the brick kilns in Islamabad's vicinity continue polluting the capital. According to officials at the Environment Ministry, the EPOs were served to owners on March 18, though the Brick Kiln Association office bearer claim that they received these orders in first week of April.