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PM joins 1,600 digital meetings during pandemic: Palak

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had joined 1,600 digital meetings during the pandemic.
State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak said this while replying to a supplementary question made by treasury bench member Khaleda Khanam at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban here on Tuesday.
Palak said, “It is surprising that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had created a new record in the history across the world by participating in the meeting digitally in the last two years.”
These meetings comprised of cabinet, Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC), political, national and international affairs where the PM joined digitally.
Bangladesh is now in fifth place in ranking due to combating the Corona with the PM’s instructions through right coordination.
“It was quite impossible to operate all the activities like education, health and administrative programme, commercial activities and even the judicial activities in the last two years if the digital Bangladesh would not be implemented by the Prime Minister,” he told the parliament.
Necessary services were rendered among the people including workless and lower income people in line with instruction given by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina through dial ‘333’ lunched in 2018.
If the ‘333’ call centre would not have existed, providing various necessary services like telemedicine, food assistance and school was not possible, he added.

City corporations to collaborate with FAO

The city corporations in Dhaka, in collaboration with FAO, have been planning to ensure sustainable urban food security in the next two decades.
With technical assistance from Wageningen University of Research (WUR) of the Netherlands, the Government of Bangladesh is planning to develop the Dhaka Food Agenda 2041.
If implemented, the agenda will guide the country’s policymakers to incorporate urban food system planning into national policies, said a press release published on Monday.
“Our goal is to make the food system of the metropolitan area of Dhaka more inclusive, resilient, and sustainable by supporting the Government of Bangladesh to develop the Dhaka Food Agenda 2041,” said Chief Technical Adviser of FAO’s Dhaka Food System project John Taylor.
“We also believe that Dhaka and many cities across the country can also develop similar strategies,” he said while speaking at the seminar titled National Food System Priorities and Preparation of the Dhaka Food Agenda 2041.
The seminar was organized jointly by Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) at Nagar Bhaban in the capital.
DNCC Chief Health Officer Brigadier General Zobaidur Rahman attended the seminar, while DNCC CEO Selim Reza chaired the event.
FAO’s Dhaka Food System (DFS) project is funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which is working to increase access to affordable, high-quality food for all of the city’s inhabitants.
In addition, Dhaka Food Agenda 2041 will complement the actions taken United Nations Food Systems Summit last year.
During that seminar, it was agreed that four city-level seminars are needed to fully engage a diverse and representative set of stakeholders. The following three seminars will take place this month in Dhaka South, Gazipur, and Narayanganj.

AL to protect PM from death threat

Agriculture minister Dr. Abdur Razzak said, Awami League will protect Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for all kind of death threat.
The minister also alleged that BNP wants to create anarchy across the country centring the forthcoming parliamentary polls.
“A peaceful environment is prevailing in the country. But BNP wants to create unrest centring the upcoming national polls. BNP will not be given any chance to create chaos in the country,” he said.
Agriculture minister Dr. Abdur Razzak remarked this in a discussion meeting marking the World Environment Day at National Museum in the city on Sunday.
Fisheries and Livestock minister SM Rezaul Karim was present at special guest.
Among others, Awami League Central Committee Member Raizul Kabir Qauser, Professor Khandaker Bazlul Haque and BCSIR chairman Aftab Ali Sheikh spoke in the function.

Ihsanul, Zahid elected IIMC Alumni Assoc President, Secy

Press Secretary of Prime Minister Office Ihsanul Karim and Chief News Editor of Channel i Zahid Newaz Khan have been elected President and General Secretary respectively of Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) Alumni Association, Bangladesh.
The committee was formed here on Saturday at a general meeting of the IIMC alumni who were fellows of the IIMC, New Delhi since 1978, said a press release here on Sunday.
Other members of the committee elected in biennial general meeting of the IIMCAA,BD at Dhaka Club’s Samson H Chowdhury Centre on Saturday evening are- Senior Vice President: Azizul Islam Bhuiyan, Vice President: M Rahmat Ali, Joint Secretary: Angur Nahar Monty, Treasurer: Naznin Akhter Tonni, and EC Members: Farid Hossain, Nazrul Islam MIthu, Samir Barua, Sabuj Yunus, Maruf Nawaz, Rozina Islam and Wares Hossain.
The general meeting was followed by IIMCAA,BD’s annual colourful event “CONNECTIONS 2022’ and `oikko.com.bd-IIMCAA,BD Media Award’ on Bangladesh-India relations.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr. Hasan Mahmud addressed the function as chief guest while Indian High Commissioner Vikram Doraiswami as special guest. Presided over by Ihsanul Karim, it was also addressed by central IIMCAA’s former President Prasad Sanyal, Oikko Foundation’s founding Chairman and oikko.com.bd’s CEO Apu Mahfuz, Azizul Islam Bhuiyan and Zahid Newaz Khan.

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