The industry minister announced
recently that the government is going to enact a law to set up a board for
controlling shipbreaking and re-cycling industry in order to save the
environment as well as improving the working condition of the workers in the industry.
Question has risen whether it is necessary to set up a new entity while
Bangladesh has a Department of Environment and a Department of Labour.
Creation of a board would overlap
the responsibilities of the above-mentioned departments. The government can
assign specific additional responsibilities to the Department of Environment
and to the Department of Labour amending the laws concerned to improve the
situation of shipbreaking and re-cycling industry that government is planning
to assign to the board.
I would, therefore, like to urge
the government not to set up a separate board for controlling performance of
shipbreaking industry aiming to safeguard the environment as well as interest
of workers rather assign the planed responsibilities to Department of
Environment and department of Labour.
Md Ashraf Hossain
Raman, Dhaka
Source:
the financial express. 4 July 2013
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