PKSF, BCSIR sign cooperation deal
Thursday, 26 July 2007
FE Report
Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) and Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in the city Wednesday to cooperate with one another in the country's poverty alleviation and economic development by utilising the BCSIR-innovated products and technologies.
According to the deal, PKSF will be able to disseminate technologies and products of BCSIR to the beneficiaries and entrepreneurs of its partner organisations (POs) that will help introduce more poor-friendly multi-dimensional innovative income-generating activities. BCSIR will also provide required training and technical support to the entrepreneurs in this connection.
PKSF General Manager (Administration) MA Hakim and BCSIR Chairman Chouwdhury Mahmud Hasan signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organisations.
A meeting was also organised on the occasion, where PKSF Acting Managing Director Mosharraf Hossain Khan and the BCSIR chairman discussed different issues of the cooperation that would be extended to achieve the objectives of the deal.
Among others, PKSF Deputy Managing Director Parveen Mahmud and Deputy General Manager Fazlul Kader, BCSIR Member (science and technology) Akram Hossain, Institute of Glass and Ceramic Research and Testing Director Fahima Rokhsana, and Pilot Plant and Process Development Centre Director M Abu Raihan were also present on the occasion.
PKSF, a non-profit apex micro-finance organisation, was established in 1990 to eradicate poverty. Up to April 2007, PKSF has provided $4557.19 million (455.719 crore) to 7.53 million poor households through its 248 POs.
Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) and Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in the city Wednesday to cooperate with one another in the country's poverty alleviation and economic development by utilising the BCSIR-innovated products and technologies.
According to the deal, PKSF will be able to disseminate technologies and products of BCSIR to the beneficiaries and entrepreneurs of its partner organisations (POs) that will help introduce more poor-friendly multi-dimensional innovative income-generating activities. BCSIR will also provide required training and technical support to the entrepreneurs in this connection.
PKSF General Manager (Administration) MA Hakim and BCSIR Chairman Chouwdhury Mahmud Hasan signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organisations.
A meeting was also organised on the occasion, where PKSF Acting Managing Director Mosharraf Hossain Khan and the BCSIR chairman discussed different issues of the cooperation that would be extended to achieve the objectives of the deal.
Among others, PKSF Deputy Managing Director Parveen Mahmud and Deputy General Manager Fazlul Kader, BCSIR Member (science and technology) Akram Hossain, Institute of Glass and Ceramic Research and Testing Director Fahima Rokhsana, and Pilot Plant and Process Development Centre Director M Abu Raihan were also present on the occasion.
PKSF, a non-profit apex micro-finance organisation, was established in 1990 to eradicate poverty. Up to April 2007, PKSF has provided $4557.19 million (455.719 crore) to 7.53 million poor households through its 248 POs.