Human chain demanding gas supply

RANGPUR: The Dhaka-based Rangpur Divisional Samity (RDS) yesterday formed a human chain and rally in front of the Deputy Commissioner's Office in the city demanding natural gas supply to Rangpur region through pipelines, reports BSS.
President of RDS Alhaj Advocate Abdullah Al Nasser presided over the hour-long human chain and rally programme.
General Secretary of RDS Professor Dr Md Nazrul Islam, its Youth Affairs Secretary Mafidul Islam and Executive Member Jafrul Islam, addressed, among others on behalf of the organisation. Among the representatives of Rangpur region, Executive Member of Bangladesh Medical Association Dr Syed Mamunur Rahman, President of Rangpur Ainjibi Samity Advocate Abdul Haque, its General Secretary Advocate Abdul Malek and vice-president of the central committee of Jatiya Party Advocate Salahuddin Kaderi, addressed.
Members of different socio-cultural, civic rights-based and professional organisations of Rangpur region, civil society members, public representatives, business community leaders, journalists, students, teachers and elite participated. The speakers explained their arguments justifying the demand for supply of natural gas to enhance industrialisation for creating employment opportunities and accelerating economic uplift of the economically backward Rangpur region. They said uniform developments here have been overlooked over the decades and time has come to eradicate all sorts of discriminations being faced by the northern people and achieve the just rights and uplift of this economically backward region.
For lack of gas supply, rate of poverty in Rangpur region is still higher than the Dhaka-Chittagong and Khulna regions, they mentioned adding that industrialisation at the Uttara Export Processing Zone at Syedpur still remains incomplete. Citing some statistics of regional discriminations in uplifts, they said about seventy percent of the country's total industries have been established in Dhaka and Chittagong regions with some twelve per cent in the northern region.

Human chain demanding gas supply

RANGPUR: The Dhaka-based Rangpur Divisional Samity (RDS) yesterday formed a human chain and rally in front of the Deputy Commissioners Office in the city demanding natural gas supply to Rangpur region through pipelines, reports BSS. President of RDS Alhaj Advocate Abdullah Al Nasser presided over the hour-long human chain and rally programme. General Secretary of RDS Professor Dr Md Nazrul Islam, its Youth Affairs Secretary Mafidul Islam and Executive Member Jafrul Islam, addressed, among others on behalf of the organisation. Among the representatives of Rangpur region, Executive Member of Bangladesh Medical Association Dr Syed Mamunur Rahman, President of Rangpur Ainjibi Samity Advocate Abdul Haque, its General Secretary Advocate Abdul Malek and vice-president of the central committee of Jatiya Party Advocate Salahuddin Kaderi, addressed. Members of different socio-cultural, civic rights-based and professional organisations of Rangpur region, civil society members, public representatives, business community leaders, journalists, students, teachers and elite participated. The speakers explained their arguments justifying the demand for supply of natural gas to enhance industrialisation for creating employment opportunities and accelerating economic uplift of the economically backward Rangpur region. They said uniform developments here have been overlooked over the decades and time has come to eradicate all sorts of discriminations being faced by the northern people and achieve the just rights and uplift of this economically backward region. For lack of gas supply, rate of poverty in Rangpur region is still higher than the Dhaka-Chittagong and Khulna regions, they mentioned adding that industrialisation at the Uttara Export Processing Zone at Syedpur still remains incomplete. Citing some statistics of regional discriminations in uplifts, they said about seventy percent of the countrys total industries have been established in Dhaka and Chittagong regions with some twelve per cent in the northern region.