The government has decided to run the green technology housing programme for another year aiming to devise a method which will help the common people reduce their energy expenses and improve their livelihoods.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith gave his consent to a proposal, put forward by the Science and Technology Ministry, to carry out the programme titled “Innovative for Smart Green Building” for another year before he went abroad, said an official concerned.
The official said Tk4.5 crore will be allocated for the programme from the revenue budget next year. In the fiscal year 2013-14, the ministry spent Tk2.63 crore on the programme launched in early last year, he added.
According to the proposal, the people can save money by reducing misuse of electricity and gas, and ensure security of their buildings and living rooms.
Under this programme, inventors will make atomic machines that will control the household electric materials like fans, television sets, fridges, cookers, heaters, ovens and air-conditioners. It will make the people aware so that nobody can raise question as to whether the country is fully ready for automation.
Earlier, an inter-ministerial meeting decided to extend the programme for 2014-2015 as the ministry could not carry out work on the programme and failed to devise suitable technology.
A total of Tk3 crore will be spent on seminars, meetings, publicity and advertisements on the proposed programme while the rest will be spent on the procurement of electrical machines and rent of a house for setting up an office to run the programme.
Zebun Nasreen Ahmed, a Buet professor, said green technologies must take care of the ecology, economy and people. “We have to look at how inclusive those technologies are as we are adopting them at a cost of our hard-earned foreign currencies. So, it will bring no good, if its benefits are confined to a few.”
Under this programme, the government will devise the method which will be good for the common people, she added.
