, Aug. 19 -- Highlighting the importance of clean air and the severe impacts of air pollution, Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT) Affairs Adviser Supradip Chakma on Tuesday said establishing a regional parliamentary taskforce on air quality is essential to address related challenges.

"Parliamentarians must lead this, because it is their responsibility. Such a taskforce could also address climate change alongside air quality. Let us therefore support the development of a regional air quality framework," he said while chairing a high-level panel discussion on the sidelines of the Hindu Kush Himalaya Parliamentarians Meet-2025.

The Adviser expressed the hope that this initiative would demonstrate, in the future, that they are on the right path....