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Bright career prospects for environment lovers

by Florence Wickramage

Those actively involved in environmental protection will gain special consideration when personnel are recruited to the government service in the future. A Cabinet Paper to this effect will be submtitted shortly by Environemnt and Natural Resources Minister A. H. M. Fowzie as an initial step under a plan launched by the Ministry to create an environmental-friendly society.

Minister Fowzie said that he has requested the Treasury to allocate sufficient funds to his Ministry as sufficient financial assistance had not been given in the past for the Ministry's programmes and activities. Due to this reason he personally had to trudge 600-700 kilometre distances on foot in the mission of protecting our trees and animals.

Certain people damage the environment to earn `quick money' destroying jungles by cutting down trees and destroying rivers by using backhoe machinery to mine sand. The Ministry will not hesitate to initiate strict legal action against such people. Minister Fowzie added that new laws will soon be enforced to completely ban the use of polythene for banners and decorations and also to rid the roads of black-smoke emitting vehicles.

Minister Fowzie made these observations participating as chief guest at a function held at Minuwangoda to hand over deeds of ownership to the landless in Sadikka Kotuwa, Miriswatte and Minuwangoda under the Government's Sanwardhana Sangramaya. Western Provincial Council Minister Prasanna Ranatunga and Minuwangoda SLFP Chief Organiser Reggie Ranatunga were among those present at the function.

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