Kashimpur village of No. 6 Auliapur Union of Dinajpur Sadar Upazila has been declared as a smart environment friendly village by keeping 15 indicators in front. On Tuesday, September 17, with the pledge of keeping the water-soil-air clean and building a polythene-free village, in the area adjacent to the Kashimpur Eidgah ground, organized by the environment-friendly village development committee and the villagers, and with the cooperation of Dinajpur AP, World Vision Bangladesh, World Vision and Acting Chairman of Auliapur Union Parishad, joint chief guest Md. Gulzar Hossain. In the signing, Kashimpur was declared a smart eco-friendly village. Dinajpur Epithor Senior Manager Arvind Sylvester Gomez presided over the welcome speech by Technical Specialist Kajal Kumar Dey.
Union VDC President Md. Saifuddin, Village Development Committee Secretary Shamima Begum, BRAC School Principal Rukhshana Begum, Facilitator Md. Shamim Shahriar, Lata Akhter and Irene Banu gave greetings. Al-Amin and Tahsina Akhter Chumki acted as moderators. Overall supervision was by Program Officer Victoria Biswas. At the end, the members of Shishu Forum presented an environment-friendly cultural program. The guests visited the eco-friendly village and saw that the family members have developed an eco-friendly garden in each of the houses of 957 families. Every household is growing a variety of vegetables with fruits, herbs and poison free and organic fertilizers. Besides, water saving hanging gardens are being built in every house. They are raising cows, goats, poultry, small scale fish farming to support themselves. In addition, they have been trained by World Vision to meet the needs of their plantations by making organic fertilizers and earthworm compost fertilizers themselves. As a result, their children are meeting the nutritional needs of their children by eating toxin-free vegetables or fruits. They put a self-made dustbin in front of each house in order to throw the household garbage in a specific place.
According to the villagers, we have already managed to achieve 10 of the 15 indicators of environmental friendliness. We are continuing the activities of the remaining 5 indicators. We believe that the villagers of other unions, upazilas, districts will be encouraged to see the smart environment friendly village.
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