Rehabilitation work starts in cyclone-affected areas: CA
Tuesday, 4 December 2007
Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed said Monday rehabilitation work had started in the cyclone-affected areas alongside relief operations, reports UNB.
He said this while receiving donations for the CA's Relief and Welfare Fund from local and foreign organisations for the cyclone victims at the CA's office.
Dr Fakhruddin said much of the money from the CA's Relief Fund had been sent for the reconstruction of damaged houses and more would be sent based on the needs to be assessed at the field level.
"It's a matter of satisfaction that people and our friends are unitedly coming forward in aid of the cyclone affected people," he told the contributors.
In rehabilitation, he said, priority had been given primarily to crop, agriculture, fishing and livestock to ensure the livelihoods of the affected people.
Terming the people of the affected areas as very courageous and resilient, he said they have started earning their livelihood with a fresh zeal and trying to rebuild their lives.
He expressed the hope that the cyclone victims would succeed in their struggle as they had done in the past in facing such natural calamities if the combined supports of the government and all others continued for them.
Former adviser of the caretaker government and president of Satirtha Sammilon 1958-62, Dhaka University ASM Shajahan, ICDDR'B executive director Charles Larson, Regional Head and CEO of State Bank of India, Dhaka Debabrata Datta, Country manager of Habib Bank Ltd, Dhaka Abdul Hye, executive member of Eurasia Reiyukai LawangTamng, chairman of Bangladesh General Insurance Co Ltd Touhid Samad, additional secretary of Finance Division and chairman of Rupali Bank Ltd Fazlul Karim, deputy secretary of commerce ministry and Administrator Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies Abu Bakker Siddiq Mollah, secretary general of Foreign Investors' Chamber of Commerce and Industry MA Matin, head of corporate affairs of Standard Chartered Bank Osman Morad and chairman of South East Bank Ltd Alamgir Kabir, were among others, present on the occasion.
He said this while receiving donations for the CA's Relief and Welfare Fund from local and foreign organisations for the cyclone victims at the CA's office.
Dr Fakhruddin said much of the money from the CA's Relief Fund had been sent for the reconstruction of damaged houses and more would be sent based on the needs to be assessed at the field level.
"It's a matter of satisfaction that people and our friends are unitedly coming forward in aid of the cyclone affected people," he told the contributors.
In rehabilitation, he said, priority had been given primarily to crop, agriculture, fishing and livestock to ensure the livelihoods of the affected people.
Terming the people of the affected areas as very courageous and resilient, he said they have started earning their livelihood with a fresh zeal and trying to rebuild their lives.
He expressed the hope that the cyclone victims would succeed in their struggle as they had done in the past in facing such natural calamities if the combined supports of the government and all others continued for them.
Former adviser of the caretaker government and president of Satirtha Sammilon 1958-62, Dhaka University ASM Shajahan, ICDDR'B executive director Charles Larson, Regional Head and CEO of State Bank of India, Dhaka Debabrata Datta, Country manager of Habib Bank Ltd, Dhaka Abdul Hye, executive member of Eurasia Reiyukai LawangTamng, chairman of Bangladesh General Insurance Co Ltd Touhid Samad, additional secretary of Finance Division and chairman of Rupali Bank Ltd Fazlul Karim, deputy secretary of commerce ministry and Administrator Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies Abu Bakker Siddiq Mollah, secretary general of Foreign Investors' Chamber of Commerce and Industry MA Matin, head of corporate affairs of Standard Chartered Bank Osman Morad and chairman of South East Bank Ltd Alamgir Kabir, were among others, present on the occasion.