RAMPAL PLANT: Delegate visits France to convince Unesco

The delegation led by Raisul Alam Mondal, director general of the Department of Environment, will hold meetings with the high-ups of Unesco urging it not to relocate the project site, said sources at the Ministry of Environment and Forests. Power Cell Director Md Abdur Rauf Mia told the Dhaka Tribune that the team will try its level best to make understand the UN organisation from logical grounds that if the 1,320MW power plant is constructed near in the Sundarbans, the world heritage site declared by the Unesco, it will not make any negative impact on the largest mangrove forest of the world. Moreover, the delegation will also urge the Unesco not to place the Sundarbans issue or not to declare the Sundarbans as hazardous place in the upcoming 41^st conference of the UN wing.