C T Online Desk: Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Jabed MP said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has taken various steps to create women entrepreneurs in the country. Women are being supported with money and training to become self-reliant. Honorable Prime Minister thinks that half of the country’s population is women.
If they are aware, the country will progress a lot. The current government has been providing various benefits to women including old age allowance, widow allowance, maternity allowance, free education opportunities for women students. Which was not given during any other government. These assistance will continue only if the Awami League government is in power in the future. Otherwise it will be closed.
He said these things in the speech of the chief guest at the certificate and allowance ceremony organized by the National Women’s Association at a community center in Anwara Upazila on Sunday afternoon.
Chaired by former MP and National Women’s Organization Chairman Chemon Ara Tayyab, Anwara Upazila Chairman Touhidul Haque Chowdhury, Upazila Executive Officer were special guests in the event. Upazila Awami League President Prof. MA Mannan Chowdhury, South District Chhatra League General Secretary Abu Taher. Shahana Parveen, Zahirul Islam, Krishna Rani Dash, Saima Nausheen Luna and others were present on the occasion among others. Certificates and allowances were awarded to two hundred trainees of Anwara-Karnaphuli upazila of National Women’s Association.
