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Transgenders to be trained in eco-friendly bags making

Islamabad : Minister of State for Climate Change Zartaj Gul said the ministry of climate change has initiated ‘Green Entrepreneurship’ through training household women and the transgender to make eco-friendly bags and earn decent livelihood.

The plastic bags ban imposed by the ministry, got full support of the public, media and academia whereas a training programme in collaboration with a philanthropist foundation was initiated to train household women for making environment friendly bags, said the minister of state in her exclusive interview with this agency.

The initiative has been taken to promote Green Entrepreneurship in the country, focusing women empowerment.

In the next phase, she said the transgenders would be trained to get a decent livelihood by producing eco-friendly bags.

She referred to BBC report claiming 60 percent of Pakistanis did not know about climate change whereas the Ministry of Climate Change in the first 15 months had created extensive public awareness.

“Prime Minister Imran Khan initiated 10-Billion Tree Tsunami, Clean Green Pakistan, a behavioural change movement and Clean Green Pakistan Index in 19 cities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab,” she added.

She said, “the plastic bags ban and electric vehicle policy have initiated a new era of environmental revolution in the country to secure better future for the future generations.”

She said the prime minister had given his assent for ''Recharge-Pakistan'' project which would ensure optimum utilization of flood water to augment fast-depleting aquifer in the country.

Zartaj said the project was an innovative and well-thought initiative under Ramsar Convention on Wetlands to which Pakistan was signatory for conserving its millions of acre feet water, discharged annually in the ocean.

She said the wetlands project was inexpensive and easy-to-build option for ensuring maximum storage capacity. It was the only way-out to efficiently recharge aquifer (underground water) which was fast depleting across the country due to uncontrolled water drilling and pumping, she added.

The underground water has depleted below 1200 feet in Balochistan and the project includes setting up special wetlands sites there.

The project mainly includes construction of wetlands at the banks of River Indus, comprising areas of Sindh and Punjab.

The minister of state said this would also help restore migratory species declining visits to the region, along with revival of ecology.

She said the project had been forwarded to the Global Climate Fund (GCF) for formal approval to get international funding.

She specifically mentioned that there were two projects of the ministry in the pipeline including energy-efficient stoves and easy loans for zigzag conversion of brick kilns to be given by the State Bank of Pakistan or Ehsaas Programme. “The chairperson of Ehsaas programme has given me a very warm response in this regard", she added.



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