Proposed Tree Reservation Law
JS body recommends amendments
A parliamentary body yesterday recommended some changes in the proposed Tree Reservation Law, which include increasing the amount of penalty for violations and delegating upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) at upazila level and executive officer at municipality level instead of forest officials to monitor enforcement of the act.
The term of imprisonment was six months and amount of fine was Tk 50,000 for violation of the law, said Abdul Momin Talukder, chief of the parliamentary committee on the environment and forest. The committee raised the fine to Tk 1 lakh, he added.
“The committee today [yesterday] finalised the proposed bill on tree reservation with these changes,” Talukder, also a BNP lawmaker, told The Daily Star after a meeting at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.
Earlier, the committee formed a four-member sub-committee to examine the bill.
The main committee however sent back the Forest (Amendment) Bill 2012 to the sub-committee for further examination and for taking views of different organisations and experts working on forest and environment on the bill, Talukder said.
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