Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Mohammad Shahab Uddin has said that the government has taken several initiatives to make the ship-breaking industry safe and environment-friendly.
He said, as a result of various far reaching measures taken by the government, four shipyards have already gone green and more than a dozen shipyards are in the process of becoming green.
The Environment Minister said these things while addressing a workshop organized by the Environment Department on environmental management of ship breaking industry on Wednesday.