Sylhet City Corporation on Tuesday has initiated a month-long campaign with the slogan ‘We throw garbage in the right place, we build a safe Sylhet,’ aimed at enhancing the city’s solid waste and sewage management systems.
SCC administrator and Sylhet divisional commissioner Khan Md Reza-Un-Nabi inaugurated the campaign titled ‘Changing behaviour of the city dwellers in urban solid waste and sewage management’ at noon as the chief guest.
The SCC in association with the Netherlands-based development partner SNV also organised an inaugural programme under the ‘Sustainable Transformation of Urban Water Cycle Project’ in the Kazi Nazrul Islam Auditorium at Rikabibazar in the city to celebrate the campaign launching and boost up public awareness about keeping the city clean.Â
The programme’s participants argued that developed countries achieved their status incrementally through consistent, positive practices, rather than instantaneous growth.
They stressed that how our country and city turn out is entirely dependent on our behavior, urging everyone to make positive changes.
The speakers stated that Sylhet’s residents, by taking personal ownership of their city, can prevent it from remaining dirty and unclean.
The SCC chief executive officer Mohammad Rezai Rafin Sarker chaired the programme while among others, environment departement’s Sylhet office director Md Ferdous Anwar, Sylhet additional deputy commissioner (general) Padmasan Singha, SCC chief waste management officer Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Mohammad Eklim Abdin and acting chief engineer Md Ali Akbar, Sylhet Metropolitan Police inspector Prabhakar Roy, SNV cluster coordinator Rahima Begum and Ehsanur Rahman Abir were present.