Jica's Resident Representative in Bangladesh Akio Arai handed over the report at a ceremony at the Nagar Bhaban.

Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Matsushiro Horiguchi and Chief Executive Officer of the DCC Saifuddin Ahmed spoke on the occasion.

Mannan Bhuiyan, in his speech, thanked the Japan government and the Jica for taking up the waste management project in the city.

He said it has become a difficult job to remove the waste from the city. Environment is being degraded due to acute shortage of dumping station. There is only one dumping station in the city.

Bhuiyan said there was no proper plan for the waste management of the DCC. The government has taken an initiative to dispose of garbage in a planned way, he added.

He said installation of two dumping stations is underway. He stressed the need for two more stations in the city.

The LGRD minister criticised the new budget of the DCC for not imposing tax, saying if tax is not imposed and arrear taxes not realised, how the DCC will run?

"Development is not possible through only government assistance", the minister said.

The Japanese ambassador assured all-out support from the Japan government in different sectors, including the waste management, in a bid to make Dhaka a clean city.