Allocation in budget for Rangpur underscored
Wednesday, 4 May 2011
Our Correspondent
RANGPUR, May 3: The State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Motahar Hossain MP emphasised the need for allocation in the national budget of the fiscal 2011-2012 for education, health and social safety-net sectors in Rangpur division in the context of climate change. He said the cropping pattern in the division has been changed, all major rivers in the region have swelled up with silt, water level is going down, cold wave and flash floods are common phenomenon caused by climate change in the region. Addressing a seminar titled 'Special Allocation in the National Budget for Rangpur Division' organised Saturday jointly by RDRS Bangladesh and Communication Initiative for Resource Development (CIRD) at Begum Rokeya auditorium of RDRS the state minister said the parliament members of Rangpur division raised the demand of special allocation in the parliament several times but to no effect. The State Minister for Primary and Mass Literacy Motahar Hossain, MP, attended the seminar as the chief guest while member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee of Information Ministry Anisul Islam Mandal, MP, and Jafar Iqbal Siddique, MP, Farida Akhter Hira, MP, Sultana Bulbul, MP, addressed the seminar as special guests. Executive Director of RDRS Dr. Selima Rahman presided over the seminar while Director (Resource & Environment) of RDRS Bangladesh Dr Syed Samsuzzaman delivered the welcome speech. Chairman of Economics Department of Begum Rokeya University Md. Morshed Hossain read out the keynote paper and Executive Director of CIRD, Rafiq Sarker moderated the seminar. Among others Tipu Munshi, MP, RDRS Bangladesh Director (Programme and Coordination) Azizul Karim, President of Rangpur Chamber of Commerce and Industry Mosaddeque Hossain Bablu, Upazila Parishad chairman of Rangpur Sadar Upazila Mosatafizar Rahman Mostafa and Rangpur press club secretary Wadud Ali also addressed the seminar. The speakers also underscored the need for formation of a caucus with the parliament members of the north who can collectively raise the points in the national parliament to achieve them. Politicians, educationists, NGO executives, economists, public representatives, lawyers, journalists, physicians, farmers, socio-cultural and human rights activists, civil society members also took part in the seminar.
RANGPUR, May 3: The State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Motahar Hossain MP emphasised the need for allocation in the national budget of the fiscal 2011-2012 for education, health and social safety-net sectors in Rangpur division in the context of climate change. He said the cropping pattern in the division has been changed, all major rivers in the region have swelled up with silt, water level is going down, cold wave and flash floods are common phenomenon caused by climate change in the region. Addressing a seminar titled 'Special Allocation in the National Budget for Rangpur Division' organised Saturday jointly by RDRS Bangladesh and Communication Initiative for Resource Development (CIRD) at Begum Rokeya auditorium of RDRS the state minister said the parliament members of Rangpur division raised the demand of special allocation in the parliament several times but to no effect. The State Minister for Primary and Mass Literacy Motahar Hossain, MP, attended the seminar as the chief guest while member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee of Information Ministry Anisul Islam Mandal, MP, and Jafar Iqbal Siddique, MP, Farida Akhter Hira, MP, Sultana Bulbul, MP, addressed the seminar as special guests. Executive Director of RDRS Dr. Selima Rahman presided over the seminar while Director (Resource & Environment) of RDRS Bangladesh Dr Syed Samsuzzaman delivered the welcome speech. Chairman of Economics Department of Begum Rokeya University Md. Morshed Hossain read out the keynote paper and Executive Director of CIRD, Rafiq Sarker moderated the seminar. Among others Tipu Munshi, MP, RDRS Bangladesh Director (Programme and Coordination) Azizul Karim, President of Rangpur Chamber of Commerce and Industry Mosaddeque Hossain Bablu, Upazila Parishad chairman of Rangpur Sadar Upazila Mosatafizar Rahman Mostafa and Rangpur press club secretary Wadud Ali also addressed the seminar. The speakers also underscored the need for formation of a caucus with the parliament members of the north who can collectively raise the points in the national parliament to achieve them. Politicians, educationists, NGO executives, economists, public representatives, lawyers, journalists, physicians, farmers, socio-cultural and human rights activists, civil society members also took part in the seminar.