30-10-2022

SunDAY, OCTOBer 30, 2022
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Phulbari Thana and Community Policing Forum, Kurigram organized a rally and discussion meeting
on the occasion of Community Policing Day.
Photo : TBT
Salman for pursuing fast
track programme to
implement PPP projects
DHAKA : Private Industry and Investment Adviser to the Prime
Minister Salman F Rahman yesterday suggested pursuing fast
track programme while undertaking and implementing
projects under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) method.
He also said that only the projects having all necessary
documents for availing investment and bank loan supports
would be given approval under the PPP. Side by side, they
should have full capacity to utilize technology, he added.
Salman said this while addressing a seminar titled "The Role
of PPP in Achieving Vision 2041" organized by the Federation
of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI)
at its auditorium in the capital's Motijheel area.
State Minister for Planning Dr Shamsul Alam and
Muhammad Ibrahim, CEO, PPP Authority attended the
seminar as special guests.
Policy Exchange of Bangladesh Chairman Dr M Masrur Reaz,
BUET Prof Dr Shamsul Haque, FBCCI Director Priti
Chakrabarty and PPP expert Mohammad Hasan Haider spoke
as panel discussants.
Foreign Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry
(FICCI) President and Standard Chartered Bank CEO Naser
Ejaj Bijoy made the key-note presentation.
The Prime Minister's adviser said that there is a need to make
successful the PPP method to move forward the economy
braving the global economic challenges.
He said it is possible to become successful if a specific method
is pursued in case of selecting projects.
"The government can accept proposals from those
institutions which have necessary funding for initiating
projects side by side having surety for getting bank loans. They
should also have capacity to use technology," he added.
Salman opined that those projects would become failed
which would not have necessary funding for initiating projects
and would not have access to bank loans.
Mentioning that law is already there to float tenders under
the PPP, he said reforms can be brought there to pursue fast
track programme.
The adviser said in order to boost power generation in the
private sector, the government had taken some initiatives and
signed agreements apart from amending the law so that an
investment-friendly environment is created in the power
sector.
He opined that if fast track programme is pursued under the
PPP method, success would also come in other sectors like in
the power sector.
State Minister for Planning Dr Shamsul Alam said that lack
of trust and confidence is often evident between the
government and the private sector entrepreneurs in case of
undertaking projects under the PPP and the main reason
behind this is many entrepreneurs could not pay back their
loans in due time.
He opined that the entrepreneurs would have to come
forward in this regard while such mistrust and lack of
confidence could go away if non-performing loans could be
reduced.The speakers at the meeting said that following the
PPP method is very much necessary to develop the
infrastructures and enhance the capacity of the ports to help
attain the goal of building a developed country by 2041.
Writer Syeda Rashida Bari
honoured with Sabyashachi
Lekhok Title
Dhaka: Syeda Rashida Bari, a versatile writer, has been
given 'Sabyashachi Lekhok Title' award.
Syeda Bari, who got 75 awards so far, received the new
award for her contribution to all the sections of
literature, a press release said.
Shuddhochitto Bangladesh Foundation, a cultural
organization, gave the award while celebrating its third
founding anniversary programme at National Institute
of Mass Communication at Kalyanpur in the capital
recently.
Kamruzzaman Kayem, president of the Foundation,
chaired the event, while Akhtaruzzamn Babul, an
official of Bangladesh Human Rights Commission,
attended as the chief guest.
While expressing her reaction after receiving award at
the event, Rashida introduced herself as daughter of a
language veteran. Her parents passed away. She sought
doa from all for success in her life.
Rashida has 200 publications, including 100
published books, to her credit. She composed over 4000
PM's photos of
fishing winning
hearts of netizens
DHAKA : Bangladesh Awami
League yesterday shared
Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina and her younger sister
Sheikh Rehana's photos that
captured happy moments of
their fishing on a holiday are
winning hearts of social
media users, reports BSS.
"In spite of being very busy
with state and party affairs,
any holiday in a month is very
enjoyable to Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina and her
family," reads a post shared
by AL on its verified Facebook
page containing three photos
that captured happy holiday
moments.
It also said when the
premier's younger sister
Sheikh Rehana stays beside
her on a holiday, their joys
know no bounds.
"Two sisters start fishing
with fishing-rod. Sometimes,
they catch big fishes.
Bangalee means a nation
brought up with fish and rice.
Best wishes to the two
daughters of Bangabandhu,"
the post reads.
The photos showing the
smiling sisters with fishingrod
and fish have already got
nearly 32,000 reactions, 1200
comments and over 1400
shares till 9pm.
10 test positive
for Covid-19
in Ctg
CHATTOGRAM : A total of
10 people were tested positive
for Covid-19 during the last
24 hours after testing 148
samples in nine Covid-19
laboratories in the district.
The Covid-19 infection rate
in the district hit almost 6.75
percent till yesterday
morning.
With the diagnosis of 12
new cases, the total number
of Covid-19 patients rose to
1,29,557 in the district, Dr
Ilias Chowdhury, civil
surgeon of Chattogram, told
BSS.
The number of healed
Covid-19 patients reached
1,28,438 with the recovery of
20 more patients during the
time.
11 gamblers held
in Thakurgaon
THAKURGAON : Police, in
separate drives, arrested 11
gamblers from different areas
under Sadar upazila here on
Friday night, reports BSS.
The gamblers were sent to
jail by court orders yesterday.
Being informed, police
conducted a drive in Velajan
area and detained six
gamblers. Each of the
detainees was awarded three
day jail by the Executive
Magistrate Abu Taher Md
Samsuzzoha who was the
Upazila Nirbahi Officer
(UNO) also.
In another drive at
Akhanagar, police nabbed
five gamblers.
President greets participants
of ICP Contest World Finals
DHAKA : President M Abdul Hamid
yesterday welcomed all participants of
the 45th International Collegiate
Programming Contest (ICPC) World
Finals to be held here next month.
In a message, the President said: "It is a
great pleasure for me to know that the
ICT Division, University of Asia Pacific
and Bangladesh Computer Council are
jointly hosting the 45th International
Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC)
World Finals for the first time in Dhaka."
The head of the state welcomed and
thanked all the participants from home
and abroad for joining this prestigious
event.
He mentioned that ICPC is the world's
largest programming contest for the
college students.
In this age of globalization and
information technology, programming is
an essential tool for solving problems of
diverse nature, he said.
As the world is transforming at an
incredible pace, solving problems in an
effective and timely manner requires
greater knowledge, skills and expertise,
he added.
Hamid hoped this ICPC would play a
vital role as a platform for the young
programmers to share and enrich their
ideas and knowledge among themselves.
"I have been informed that the
participants are from the top ranked
universities across the world and have
already proven their deep coding
knowledge, skills and abilities to solve
intricate problems through diligence and
fortitude," he said.
He believed that they would definitely
become the great minds of the future to
lead and provide solutions to the
multidimensional problems of the world.
"I would like to express my sincere
appreciation to the ICPC Foundation for
selecting Dhaka to be the host of the 45th
World Finals and wish the event a grand
success," he said.
Chairman of YMCA School and College handing over the admit card of outgoing
SSC candidates in Bogura yesterday.
Photo : Courtesy