DNCC wins Bloomberg Philanthropies Award for creating greener spaces

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DNCC wins Bloomberg Philanthropies Award for creating greener spaces

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has been announced as one of the ten winners of C40 Cities Bloomberg Philanthropies Award 2022. The awards were announced at the C40 World Mayors Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Thursday (October 19 local time), reports UNB. DNCC Mayor Atiqul Islam receive

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DNCC wins Bloomberg Philanthropies Award for creating greener spaces​

Published: October 20, 2022 19:19:56 | Updated: October 20, 2022 22:19:41

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Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has been announced as one of the ten winners of C40 Cities Bloomberg Philanthropies Award 2022.

The awards were announced at the C40 World Mayors Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Thursday (October 19 local time), reports UNB.

DNCC Mayor Atiqul Islam received the award, given under the 'United in building climate resilience' category for expansion of green spaces to create a greener, more inclusive and liveable city in Dhaka North City Corporation.

Awards were given out in five categories that align with this year's summit theme, 'United in Action'. The categories are: United to accelerate immediate action in critical sectors, United to clean the air we breathe, United in building climate resilience, United to innovate and United in building a climate movement.

After receiving the award, DNCC Mayor Atiqul said, "In this time of Covid-19, climate change and conflict, we must remain united and remember that no one is safe unless everyone is safe. Human civilisation may even face extinction."

This year, 70 cities competed for the prestigious awards.
The awards celebrate pioneering climate projects led by cities around the world, recognising mayors and encouraging friendly competition between cities keen to demonstrate their successful climate actions and raise global ambition. Seven prior editions of the awards programme have taken place to showcase some of the world's most ambitious climate projects and amplified best practices.

The other awarded cities are: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (united to accelerate immediate action in critical sectors) for improving waste management in Addis Ababa through decentralised composting and recycling.

Amsterdam in the Netherlands (united to accelerate immediate action in critical sectors) for reducing Amsterdam's gas consumption by 15 per cent in 2022.

Beijing in China (united to clean the air we breathe) for phasing out coal in Beijing's heating system.

Pune in India (united to clean the air we breathe) for rapid electric bus deployment in Pune.

Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara, Mexico (united to build resilience) for strengthening local water resilience in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara. Freetown in Sierra Leone (united to innovative) for #FreetowntheTreetown planting and digitally tracking Freetown's trees.

Sao Paulo in Brazil (united to innovative) for Sao Paulo's school menu, reducing food insecurity via local production and climate-friendly options.

Seattle in USA (united to build a climate movement) for tackling inequity with Seattle's Green New Deal.

Tokyo in Japan and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia (united to build a climate movement) for global north and global south collaboration in Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur to decarbonise the building sector.

C40 is a network of nearly 100 mayors of the world's leading cities committed to delivering the urgent action needed to confront the climate crisis. Bloomberg Philanthropies invests in 941 cities and 173 countries around the world to ensure better, longer lives for the greatest number of people.

 

[Bilal9]

If anyone from Bangladesh deserves this award, Mayor Atiq does. Good to see him participate in benchmarking with other mayors.

The man has been seen routinely entering blocked dirty sewerage drains the middle of intersections and paying surprise visits to Mohallas all around his jurisdiction to clean up and enforce rules.

He is a one-man task-force and sincere to a "T". He only had issues facing the bus Mafia. They are too powerful and entrenched and beyond his purview to control.

Is that the Mayor of London with him, the right honorable Sadiq Khan?

 

[bluesky]

The man has been seen routinely entering blocked dirty sewerage drains the middle of intersections and paying surprise visits to Mohallas all around his jurisdiction to clean up and enforce rules.

I have watched some of his videos on inspections of drains and others. However, I believe the important thing is to buildup many systems whereby the responsible municipal teams do their jobs routinely.

One mayor cannot do all these inspection jobs. Someday, it will be proved inefficient. In Japan/ Tokyo, I see many inspectors moving in cars to inspect roads, waste management, sewerage system, rainwater disposal system, etc.

These works have been divided into sections at the Municipal Office, and the Section/ Bureau in charge prepares schedules and delegates responsibilities to their workers.

This is how all the developed countries are run. Mayor Atique cannot solve all the issues alone.

 

[Bilal9]

I have watched some of his videos on inspections of drains and others. However, I believe the important thing is to buildup many systems whereby responsible teams do their jobs routinely.

One mayor cannot do all these inspection jobs. Someday, it will be proved inefficient. Here, in Japan/ Tokyo, I see many inspectors moving in cars to inspect roads, waste management, sewerage system, rainwater disposal system, etc.

They do these because the works have been divided into many Sections at the Municipal Office and the Section/ Bureau in charge prepares schedules and delegates responsibilities to their workers.

This is how all the developed countries are run. Mayor Atique cannot solve all the issues alone.

I don't know if he does these things for publicity. But yes, the right thing is to run management of the city properly.

In Dhaka city administrative depts. we have a bunch of irresponsible suwars in all stages of management. They don't know the first thing about being responsible and doing their jobs, other than to take bribes of course.

 

[mb444]

If anyone from Bangladesh deserves this award, Mayor Atiq does. Good to see him participate in benchmarking with other mayors.

The man has been seen routinely entering blocked dirty sewerage drains the middle of intersections and paying surprise visits to Mohallas all around his jurisdiction to clean up and enforce rules.

He is a one-man task-force and sincere to a "T". He only had issues facing the bus Mafia. They are too powerful and entrenched and beyond his purview to control.

Is that the Mayor of London with him, the right honorable Sadiq Khan?

Yes that is Sadiq Khan.

 

[bluesky]

I don't know if he does these things for publicity. But yes, the right thing is to run management of the city properly.

In Dhaka city administrative depts. we have a bunch of irresponsible suwars in all stages of management. They don't know the first thing about being responsible and doing their jobs, other than to take bribes of course.

A Mayor is a Chief Manager of the City. Most of those Suwars do not work. But, the problem is their bosses themselves do not know what they are supposed to do or order their subordinates.

Now, since Mayor Atique knows the field works himself, it is easy for him to train the Section Chiefs and delegate their work. They should go out with their subordinates to understand what they are supposed to inspect, write individual reports for each one, take pictures of the sites, then sit together in meetings to discuss among themselves, and take actions like allocating jobs to local subcontractors under tenders, sometimes just even written with the permission of the Mayor because each work is very small.

I am talking here about the team works by a group of responsible officials. I think without this, Dhaka City will not be made beautiful.

This is also true for the GoB. Maulana Bhasani was probably not that systematic. But, even he complained in the Parliament, "মুজিব, কথা শোন, হৈ হৈ কইরা নৌকা চালানো আর দ্যাশ চালানো সমান কথা না"।

This one sentence of Bhasani speaks of the way our illiterate politicians run the country. But, everything must be made systematic like it is in Japan, Korea, or Singapore.