Politicians, academics and water experts on Saturday at a seminar in Dhaka stressed the need for integrated initiatives to get justified share of water from 54 common rivers flowing between Bangladesh and India.
They also said that the interim government should take integrated initiatives to get justified share of water from the rivers.
International Farakka Committee organised the seminar at the National Press Club where leader of the committee, Mostafa Kamal Majumder, chaired.
Finance adviser to the interim government Salehuddin Ahmed said, 鈥榃e must take initiatives to save the rivers of Bangladesh and to get the justified water share of the 54 common rivers following between Bangladesh and India.鈥�
Salehuddin said that the common rivers of the country were facing critical conditions due to lack of getting justified amount of water from India.
He called on the people of the country to be vocal against supremacy of the Indian government compelling it to give Bangladesh justified amount of water of the common revers.
Former Jahangirnagar University vice-chancellor Jasim Uddin Ahmed said that Bangladesh government should approach the United Nations seeking resolution to water problems between the two countries.
Bhashani Onusari Parishad convener Sheikh Rafiqul Islam Bablu said, 鈥楳aulana Bhashani understood that India would not give us justified amount of water of common revers between the two countries.鈥�
So, he led the Farakka Long March in 2004 in demand of water.
Water experts Abu Sayeed Shahin, Jamal Uddin Jamil, Kazi Mostofa Kamal and others spoke at the seminar.