Dhaka, June 13: Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury said that smart transformation of the environmental clearance certificate giving process through a completely new software has been undertaken with the aim of reducing the various limitations of the existing system.  This will simplify the clearance application process, reducing service providers’ time, costs and visits to the office.  The entrepreneur can apply through one stop service.  To ensure transparency and accountability, all conditions under which clearance will be granted will be published on the website.

The Minister of Environment said these things in his speech at the smart transformation workshop on the issue of quick-win Environmental clearance Certificate  to build a smart Bangladesh in the meeting room of the ministry at the Bangladesh Secretariat on Thursday (June 13).

The environment minister said that modern technology software will be used for the smart transformation of the environmental clearance process.  There will be facility of complete online submission of application form, uploading of other necessary documents and obtaining clearance.  Monitoring of clearance process will be easy.  The entrepreneur will have the facility of online application progress tracking facility and online payment of processing fee, clearance/renewal fee, VAT invoice.  Fake/unwanted documents can be detected.  Clearance application information and clearance can be verified for correctness.

In the meeting, Additional Secretary of the Ministry Md. Mosharraf Hossain, Tapan Kumar Biswas and Dr. Fahmida Khanam, Director General of the Department of Environment Dr. Abdul Hamid and officials of various ministries and departments were present.