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RAJSHAHI, Sept 11, 2025 (BSS)- Speakers at a meeting with mass-media people here today unequivocally called for a time-fitting and effective policy for making the energy sector sustainable and eco-friendly.

Such a policy can play a pioneering role towards overall development of the country together with facing the adverse impact of climate change and eco-friendliness.

Experts and students made the observations while addressing a meeting titled "Fuel Transformation 2024 proposed by Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) to transform Fuel Equity".

CAB Youth Sangsad organised the meeting at Midas Restaurant attended by journalists, think tanks, students and researchers.
 
CAB Fuel Adviser Professor Shamsul Alam, Adviser (Complain) Engineer Khademul Islam, Senior Vice-president of Rajshahi Chamber of Commerce and Industry Sultan Mahmud, Researcher Mahbub Siddiqui and former Additional Registrar of Rajshahi University Safiuddin Ahmed addressed the meeting with CAB Youth Sangsad local unit president Zulfiker Ali Haider in the chair.

Students from the Department of Economics at Dhaka University Nazufa Taznur, Aritra Rudra Dhar and Mehbuba Afroz presented keynote papers on different issues of the fuel sector moderated by CAB local unit general secretary Golam Mostota Mamun.

In his remarks, Prof Shamsul Alam called for ensuring transparency and accountability in the fuel sector.

He mentioned that policy support, equitable price rate, and private investments can be the effective means of attaining security to sustainable 
energy.

Prof Shamsul Alam also said substantial and sustainable promotion of renewable energies, particularly solar power, can be the crucial means of lessening the gradually mounting pressure on fossil fuel. 

Side by side with the financial burden on the economy, fossil fuel has detrimental impacts on the environment but renewable energies have no bad impact on the economy and the environment.
 
So, the institutions and research entities concerned should come forward and work together to promote the sector after the best uses of the existing resources and potentialities.

Time has come to protect the natural resources including the wetlands and water bodies for restoring the green atmosphere.