Tk 1400cr to fight climate impacts
State Minister for Land Advocate Mustafizur Rahman yesterday said the government has so far allocated Tk 1400 crore from its own fund for implementing afforestation programme with an objective to adapt to the climate change impacts.
He said this while replying to a supplementary question from lawmaker Sadona Halder of women constituency-32 at the Jatiya Sangsad here.
"The government has already allocated Tk 1400 crore for afforestation, social afforestation, river dredging and coastal afforestation which have been undertaken as an strategy to adapt to the climate change impacts in the country", he said on behalf of the State Minister for Environment and Forests Dr Hasan Mahmud.
Replying to another supplementary question on the benefit of social afforestation from AL lawmaker Manzur Kader Quoreshy, he said the government has increased the share of beneficiaries up to 75 per cent under the social afforestation programme, which was only sixty per cent earlier.
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