A modern Air Quality Research and Monitoring Centre (AQRMC) have been established under the science faculty of Dhaka University.
The inaugural ceremony of the centre was held yesterday in Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban of the university, said a media release.
The AQRMC has been set up with the support from Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP) of the University Grants Commission (UGC), in which World Bank and Bangladesh Government would finance under a sub-project in collaboration with Wuppertal University, Germany.
The event was followed by a seminar titled “Air Quality and Its Consequences: Global Perspective” in the same venue.
Addressing the program, UGC Chairman Prof Dr AK Azad Chowdhury said Bangladesh is the worst sufferer of climate change, air pollution and global warming. DU Pro-Vice chancellor (Administration) Prof Dr Shahid Akhtar Hossain gave a briefing on the AQRMC’s establishment and functions.