Development, Natural Disaster
Government making long-term plan
With a long-term vision of 100 years, the government is formulating a holistic and cross-sector plan on how to manage natural resources and reduce negative impacts of natural disasters for ensuring sustainable socio-economic development of the country.
The Netherlands government is providing technical and financial support to Bangladesh to formulate the development strategy titled “Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100â€, first of its kind in the country.
Bangladesh and the Netherlands have already signed a memorandum of understanding regarding the delta plan last year, Water Resources Minister Ramesh Chandra Sen said yesterday.
The minister was speaking at a workshop titled “Building Climate Resilience in the Bangladesh Delta: Managing for Effective Water Solutions†organised by the Institute of Water Modelling, and the Centre for Environment and Geographical Information System.
Bangladesh, one of the biggest deltas in the basin of the Brahmaputra, the Ganges and the Meghna, is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world due to climate change, said Samar Kumar Ghosh, joint chief of Planning Commission, adding this prompted the government to make the long-term development plan.
The general economic division of the Planning Commission would prepare the development strategy while an inter-ministerial national advisory committee would guide them.
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