Staff correspondent :<\/p>\n
Local Government and Rural Development<\/p>\n
and Cooperatives Minister Md Tajul Islam today said the government will
\ninstall a total of 10,65,000 arsenic-free water sources in rural areas of the
\ncountry by 2025 under different projects.<\/p>\n
“The local government and rural development division has undertaken various
\ninitiatives to ensure arsenic-free water at rural areas,” he told the Jatiya
\nSangsad (JS) while responding to a question from a treasury bench member
\nMorshed Alam of Noakhali-2 constituency in the House with Speaker Dr Shirin
\nSharmin Chaudhury in the chair.<\/p>\n
The Directorate of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) has been implementing
\nvarious projects in rural areas, the minister said, adding: “Besides, deep
\ntube wells, the government will also supply water through pipeline, arrange
\nrain water preservation, digging of ponds, rehabilitation of ponds,
\ninstallation of solar-run pond sand filter. These initiatives will reduce 5-6
\npercent of arsenic risk by 2025 for those who are at present in arsenic
\nrisk.”<\/p>\n
He told the House that the Statistic Bureau of Bangladesh (BBS) and UNICEF
\njointly conducted a Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) in 2019 and
\nfound that 11 percent of the total population is at arsenic risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Staff correspondent : Local Government and Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Md Tajul Islam today said the government will install a total of 10,65,000 arsenic-free water sources in rural areas of the country by 2025 under different projects. “The local government and rural development division has undertaken various initiatives to ensure arsenic-free water at rural areas,” he told the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) while responding to a question from a treasury bench member Morshed Alam of Noakhali-2 constituency in the House with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"yes","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_5980380192037842_108390337697511":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8799,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797\/revisions\/8799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}