CSE’s certified five day Training Programme on Social Impact Assessment

We are pleased to inform you that the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is going to organise a certified hands-on five-day training programme aimed at giving practical exposure to participants on SIA with specific reference to coal based power plant, cement, hydropower, building and construction projects, pharmaceutical, mining and other sectors.

 

We are writing to invite you for this unique training programme. The objective of this programme is to enable stakeholders to understand the project and its likely consequences, and

Three programs of H. E. Hasanul Haq Inu

Media coverage for the following Three (03) programs of H. E. Hasanul Haq Inu, Minister of Information and Cultural Affairs attending as Chief Guest:

Tomorrow Friday, 27 Dec 2013:

11.00 am at CIRDAP Auditorium, Topkhana Road, Dhaka 1000:

Seminar on 'Election and Security of Minorities'

Contact: Ms. Priyobala Biswas, 01711 241235

4000 acres tobacco plantation perils environment & forest

An investigative report on Daily Azadi, on Dec 26, 2013 reveals that with the backings of Tobacco Companies’, tobacco is alarmingly being grown on different parts of Ramu Upazilla under Cox’sBazar district and lands for social forestation, riverbanks and even state-owned fallow lands too are being used for the cultivation. Tobacco companies inspire farmers on tobacco cultivation by providing special incentives like

Expenditure-Income Ratio (EIR) by Type of Banks in South Asia

The gap between required provision and the provisionmaintained has been experiencing a negative trend over the years since 2005, except in 2009 and 2011. In 2012, required provision was Tk.24239 crore against the provision maintained Tk. 18977 crore results in shortfall was Tk. 5262 crore whereas
in 2011, there was surplus in case of loan loss provisioning. A business as usual projection says that in 2013, the shortfall of required provision and the provision maintained might increase which is an