AIR POLLUTION IN DHAKA CITY AND THE POLICY RESPONSES: A REVIEW

Dhaka is one of the crowded cities on earth. It has a population of about 10 million. City roads are chocked with manual rickshaw, rickshaw vans, three wheeler auto-rickshaw (two stroke engine), buses, trucks, cars, microbus, minibus and even push carts. The only oil refinery at Chittagong still produces leaded gasoline and high sulphur diesel. With the advent civilization and all around mechanization, scientific development has however turned around as a boomerang, as developments in agriculture, industrial and transportation arenas have been perturbed the natural balance and disarrayed the composition of air in the global scale.