Through developing the system, the government hopes to get poverty-environment and GIS spatial data and statistics to further measure and analysis of the poverty-environment nexus, considering the broad recognition that the poverty and environment has strong links. Poverty and environment has three key links---access to and distribution of natural resources; distribution of benefits derived from natural resources and condition of natural resources and their capacity to provide benefits to people. KM Mozammel Hoq, Secretary, Statistics and Informatics Division (SID), the Ministry of Planning, was present at the inaugural session of the three-day training while Bikash Kishore Das, Additional Secretary, Statistics and Informatics Division (SID), was special guest. “This is very important to find out the linkages between poverty and environmental degradation and it will surely help formulate further policies and planning," Hoq said. About 60 government officials from different ministries, divisions and agencies took part in the training.

Source: bd News24 October 09, 2017 19:41 UTC