11 June, 2009

Seminar on the Project " Strengthening Capacity for Water Quality Analysis &

Monitoring System" in Bangladesh Held

Information Sharing & Leadership Seminar on the Project “Strengthening Capacity for Water Quality Analysis & Monitoring System in Bangladesh” was held at DPHE Auditorium, Kakrail on June 11, 2009.

Mr. Shaikh Khurshid Alam, the Secretary of Local Government Division of the Ministry of Local Government Rural Development & Cooperatives graced the seminar as Chief Guest while His Excellency Mr. Masayuki Inoue, Ambassador of Japan to Bangladesh was present as Guest of Honor.

The Department of Public Health Engineering and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) jointly organized the seminar.

In the seminar, the Ambassador attached great importance on availability of clean drinking water which is a pre-requisite of unhindered health service and checked the mortality rate of the human kind. He reiterated that the Government of Japan has keen interest to provide grant in safe drinking water through DPHE and other organizations.

He further mentioned that, the Government of Japan was also supporting Bangladesh in sanitation through technical assistance in DPHE Central Laboratory and other non-government organizations of this country.

He wished the seminar a great success.