Ship breaking policy in 3 months: Barua
Industries Minister Dilip Barua yesterday said a policy on ship breaking would be adopted within the next two to three months.
He also said Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP) is going to be made mandatory for the industrial areas under the proposed Industry Act.
“Either the industrial areas should have a centralised waste discarding system or the factories should have their own ETP,” he added.
He was speaking as the chief guest at the eighth Bangladesh Roundtable on Social Compliance titled “Occupational health and safety: Water treatment” held at a hotel in the port city.
LIFT Standards, a German advisory service, organised the roundtable with the support of Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI), a Brussels-based European trade association.
Dilip Barua called for the tanneries at Hazaribag in Dhaka to be shifted to a proper location soon and to include ETP for their waste disposal, failing which the European Union may stop buying leather goods from Bangladesh.
East Delta University Vice-Chancellor Muhammed Sekander Khan presided over the programme while Department of Environment, Chittagong Director Md Jafar Alam, HKD Chittagong President Davis Park and Christian Von Mitzlaff of LIFT Standards attended among others.
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