Government will use ‘Brick Kiln Tracker’ from now – Environment Minister
Staff Reporter
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury said that the government will use Brick Kiln Tracker to help identify environmental polluters and illegal brick kilns and take appropriate legal action against them. As a result, it will be easier to stop illegal activities by identifying highly harmful brick kilns on a priority basis. As a result, it will be possible to reduce air pollution caused by brick kilns.
He said these things in the president’s speech at the presentation of the Brick Kiln Tracker prepared to control the pollution of brick kilns in the meeting room of the ministry at the Bangladesh Secretariat on Thursday.
He said that the Brick Kiln Tracker based on IT and remote sensing technology has been developed in a joint venture between the Department of Environment and the National University of Singapore.
He said, Monitoring and enforcement activities of the Department of Environment will be strengthened and successful with the help of this latest technology trucker with artificial intelligence.