Govt to supply rice to garment workers at reduced rate
FE Report | Thursday, 26 February 2009
Food and Disaster Management Minister Abdur Razzak Tuesday said the government will resume the open market sale (OMS) system to supply rice to garment workers at a reduced price.
"Similar steps targeting poor people of other areas such as 'chars' and hills will be taken," Dr Abdur Razzak said while addressing a seminar titled 'National Workshop on Basic Social Security Systems as part of Social Protection: The Case of Bangladesh' organised by RDRS Bangladesh at the IDB Bhaban in the city.
Bangladesh is currently implementing 27 different safety net programmes.
The present government is seriously considering bringing more people under its safety net programmes, said the minister adding his government attaches importance to food security at it is the core of social security issue.
"We have taken necessary measures to increase domestic production and also enhanced timely import."
"We have to increase productivity by using latest technology and high-yielding seeds, he added.
Sociologist AH Golam Quddus, senior fellow of Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), in his keynote presentation, said that in Bangladesh improvements in education, health, water and sanitation, and poverty alleviation had been made possible through more effective state action and expansion of service delivery by NGO's. "However, one basic question that remains to be resolved is to what extent these achievements could tricle down to the vast multitude of people who still live below the poverty line."
The workshop was organised to discuss various aspects of a study styled 'Basic Social Security Systems in Bangladesh' conducted by BCAS in association with ASD, BASSA, BPKS, CBSDP, CCDB, MATI, RDRS Bangladesh and Prodipan which focused on different types of hardcore poor from 10 locations of the country.
Former adviser of caretaker government Advocate Sultana Kamal, director of RDRS Syed Shamsuzzaman and economist Atiur Rahman, among others, also spoke.
Kamaluddin Akbar, executive director of RDRS, presided over the workshop.
"Similar steps targeting poor people of other areas such as 'chars' and hills will be taken," Dr Abdur Razzak said while addressing a seminar titled 'National Workshop on Basic Social Security Systems as part of Social Protection: The Case of Bangladesh' organised by RDRS Bangladesh at the IDB Bhaban in the city.
Bangladesh is currently implementing 27 different safety net programmes.
The present government is seriously considering bringing more people under its safety net programmes, said the minister adding his government attaches importance to food security at it is the core of social security issue.
"We have taken necessary measures to increase domestic production and also enhanced timely import."
"We have to increase productivity by using latest technology and high-yielding seeds, he added.
Sociologist AH Golam Quddus, senior fellow of Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), in his keynote presentation, said that in Bangladesh improvements in education, health, water and sanitation, and poverty alleviation had been made possible through more effective state action and expansion of service delivery by NGO's. "However, one basic question that remains to be resolved is to what extent these achievements could tricle down to the vast multitude of people who still live below the poverty line."
The workshop was organised to discuss various aspects of a study styled 'Basic Social Security Systems in Bangladesh' conducted by BCAS in association with ASD, BASSA, BPKS, CBSDP, CCDB, MATI, RDRS Bangladesh and Prodipan which focused on different types of hardcore poor from 10 locations of the country.
Former adviser of caretaker government Advocate Sultana Kamal, director of RDRS Syed Shamsuzzaman and economist Atiur Rahman, among others, also spoke.
Kamaluddin Akbar, executive director of RDRS, presided over the workshop.