February 13, 2010
Workers are giving their toil in the factory.
Dulal Chandra Pattak
Dhaka, Bangladesh: Garments are doing a lot to the economy of Bangladesh that can be measured but the harms done by garments cannot be measured by any scale. About 76 percent of our export earning is gained by Bangladesh every year by exporting ready made garments to different countries of the world like European Union and the U.S.A. Besides, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand; Russia etc. also are other garments importing countries. Read more...
January 24, 2010
Rihad with chocolate
: At last Saturday, I was eating under the shadow (Canteen) of Dhaka University campus. Suddenly a very little boy named ‘Rihad’ came to me silently as usual with some chocolates. I gave him Tk.2 and observed what he does with this money. I saw that he directly went to his mother who was sitting far from the shadow (Canteen).He gave the money to his mother and his mother deposited the money in her Shari.
I went to the mother of this little boy and asked about her business. She said, “I am suitable for job but I can not get any job. I have two boys and both of them sell chocolates in the university campus. I purchase some packets of chocolate and sell the chocolates individually by my children. This business is quite profitable. Sometimes students do not take chocolate but pay money to my sweet children. I continuously change my place and sell chocolate in the whole campus by my children. Students do not see me because I sit far from the place where my children sell chocolate”. Read more...
Tags: Chocolate Business, Dhaka UniversityDevelopment
December 26, 2009
Khesra, Satkhira
Mohammad Saiful Islam
Satkhira, Bangladesh : Majority of the people of Khesra Union of Satkhira are jobless until now from the destruction of Aila. Fisheries are without fishes. Crop lands are without crops and roads and embankments are broken. People have to go one place from another by walking because roads are not suitable to ride any vehicle.
Local people are developing the condition of this weak infrastructure with their own efforts and with the help of Chairman. This job in this infrastructure sector is only one source of income for the majority of the people. They are giving much labor with fewer wages because they have no way to earn without it right now. Read more...
Tags: Bangladesh, SatkhiraClimate Change, Development
December 10, 2009
Mohammad Saiful Islam
United Nations Framework for Climate Change (UNFCC) has announced fund of $10 billion for poor countries that will be used in 2012.This fund will be used to suit with the adverse situation of climate change. In this fund, United Kingdom will give $300 crore. Besides, $10000 crore will be given in 2020. UNFCC will collect this fund from the rich countries that are associated with discharging carbon. This fund will be given to the countries that are the victims of climate change.
Executive Secretary of UNFCC Eubo D. Voer told, “Industrial countries will be requested to reduce discharging carbon at the conference of climate change in Copenhagen. Representatives of 192 countries of the world will participate in this conference. We will Read more...
Tags: Conference, Copenhagen, Poor CountriesClimate Change, Climate Fund, Climate Talk, Climate victim, Development
December 6, 2009
Probable impact of Climate Change in Bangladesh
Mohammad Saiful Islam
Bangladesh has already invested $10 billion to confront damages and risk of natural disaster. Majority of this fund came from donor agencies. It is the greatest challenge for Bangladesh to maximize the investment and minimize the risk of natural disaster.
At 2008, Bangladesh government prepared action plan on climate change. Six important factors of this action plan were food security, social safety and health, comprehensive disaster management, research, minimizing the expansion of carbon and organizational efficiency development. This action plan is modified at present where above six factors have got highest emphasize.
This action plan will be the basis for the discussion of the meeting in Copenhagen. This action plan will determine what Read more...
Tags: Bangladesh, CopenhagenClimate Change, Climate Fund, Climate Talk, Climate victim, Development
