City Bank held a tree plantation programme, in collaboration with the Gulshan Society, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK), at Gulshan in Dhaka on Wednesday.
As part of the week-long celebration of World Environment Day, the bank held this event, according to a press release.
Md Atiqul Islam, mayor of DNCC attended the programme as the chief guest while Aziz Al Kaiser, chairman of City Bank, inaugurated the event as the special guest.
The programme was conducted by Barrister Omar Sadat, director of Gulshan Society, where Mashrur Arefin, managing director & CEO of City Bank, Major (Retd) Shamsuddin Ahmed Chowdhury, member of RAJUK, along with high officials of the organisations were also present.
For the last few years, City Bank has been taking various steps on environmental issues as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR). In continuation of this, the banks already planted more than one lakh trees at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Shilpa Nagar (BSMSN) at Mirsarai under Feni Economic Zone and various schools of the country.
Like previous years, the bank organised a week-long programme with various events to celebrate World Environment Day this year. Recently, the bank launched a Green Savings Account as part of its sustainability initiatives.
Under this product, the bank has started planting one tree against each account opened. Apart from this, the bank actively participated in the tree plantation programme with the Gulshan Society and started planting 5,000 trees beginning with this event.
Along with the tree plantation, City Bank started working with the Gulshan Society, Dhaka North City Corporation and RAJUK this year to restore the water bodies around Gulshan areas to their former pollution-free state.
