UN led body demanded for conservation of Sundarbans

Dhaka : The National Committee to Protect Sundarbans today demanded that a UN-led committee, comprising of scientists, be formed to protect the world’s largest mangrove forest.At a programme in the Dhaka today, the committee also demanded that the plan for constructing two power plants in the Sundarbans , the government-run Rampal and private-run Orion should be suspended till formulating a new Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) under the new UN-led committee.