xBangladesh cabinet okays Renewable Energy Authority Act

The Cabinet on June 18 approved the draft of Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development Authority Act, 2012

aiming to increase the production and use of green energy in the
country.

The approval was given at the regular weekly meeting of the cabinet held at Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime

Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.

Briefing reporters after the meeting, Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said the government has

initiated the renewable energy law framing to bring use of the renewable energy under a legal framework as use

of the renewable energy including biogas and solar energy have been increased in the country in recent years.

In the backdrop of adverse impacts of global climate change, the use of renewable energy has been increased

across the globe, he said.

The Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development Authority will be replaced the existing Energy Cell and the

bill will be placed as a 'Finance Bill' in parliament after approval of the
President.

Headed by a chairman, the Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development Authority will be consist of five full

members and a number of part-time members, including of private sector.

Today's cabinet also endorsed a proposal for signing a bilateral agreement on air-traffic between Bangladesh

and Myanmar, updating the existing law of 1977.

Under the agreement, five private and public sector airlines would operate seven passenger and four cargo

flights every week between the cities of the two countries.

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