Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser on water resources and environment, forest and climate change, said that the current generation has not seen clean rivers and clean canals. We feel sad for the river, because we saw the clean river as a child.
Addressing the present generation, he said, you have never seen a clean river, you don't know what it is like when the river is clean, how useful it is for people.
He said this while speaking as the chief guest at the Rampura-Jirani canal cleaning campaign in Dhaka on Friday (November 1).
Earlier in the morning, Youth and Sports Adviser Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan inaugurated the Rampura-Jirani Canal cleaning campaign organized by the Ministry of Water Resources and Youth Development Department of the Ministry of Youth and Sports at the Rampura Trimohini Eidgah ground in Dhaka.
This program was taken as a part of 64 canal-reservoir cleaning campaign selected in 64 districts across the country on the occasion of National Youth Day-2024 celebration on November 1.
Adviser Rizwana Hasan said, the canal that will be cleaned by your hands today, may this canal remain clean in the future. But you have to take this responsibility as the leader of the future.
The advisor said, today the idea of 64 canal-reservoir cleaning campaign selected in 64 districts across the country came from the Ministry of Youth and Sports and this is the power of youth.
He said that many people including Ministry of Water Resources, Water Development Board, Ministry of Youth and Sports, Department of Youth Development, Dhaka South City Corporation have participated in this canal cleaning campaign.
The advisor said, those who say that there is no coordination between the government, but we have slowly proved it wrong. We have to unite for national interest. Today's canal cleaning campaign has been started with great coordination - this is a big proof of that.
In the event, the Water Resources Advisor said that we have taken up the canal cleaning program in 64 districts, which will continue from today till November 15.
He said, we will not end it here, we will make a committee at each canal-centered local level. Those on the committee will see who is trying to defile the canal again and they will be countered there first.
