Department of Environment (Bangladesh)


Department of Environment is a government department responsible for the protection of the environment in Bangladesh and is located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The department is headed by a director general. It is under the Ministry of Environment and Forests.

History

Following the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972, the government of Bangladesh founded the Department of Public Health Engineering and passed the Water Pollution Control Ordinance in 1973. In 1977 the Environment Pollution Control Cell was created with 26 members. In 1989 the Government of Bangladesh created the Department of Environment from the Environment Pollution Control Cell and the Department of Public Health Engineering. The department regulates pollution and can fine polluting industries. Factories and industries need regulatory approval from the Department to operate.