Logging trees at Joydebpur, Mawa gets Cabinet nod

The Cabinet on Monday approved the proposal for cutting down and removing 498 Sal trees from the Reserved Natural Forest from Joydebpur to Mawa area to help implement the Joydebpur-Mymensingh Road Development Project. The approval came at the 7th regular weekly meeting of the Cabinet of the current government held at Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. After the meeting, Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan briefed reporters. He said with the change of alignment of 4-lane Dhaka-Mymensingh Road based on soil tests, logging the Sal trees has become necessary to implement the project and hence the cabinet approved the proposal issuing directives to plant the same number of trees elsewhere in the forest. The cabinet secretary said the cabinet also expressed satisfaction over the international recognition of Bangladesh’s measures to combat money laundering and terror financing, according to UNB.