Second Secretary of the UK High Commission Ian Pugh Cook said this when he called on Acting Mayor of the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) M Manjur Alam at the latter's office, said a press release.

Ian Pugh Cook apprised the mayor of the purposes for organising the workshop as the UK visa applicants from this region are still less than the other areas of the country.

He said from now onwards the people of greater Chittagong need not go to Dhaka for applying and obtaining UK visas.

The CCC acting mayor urged the UK envoy to make the visa procedures simpler so that financially less-affluent but meritorious students could apply and obtain UK visas for their higher studies, the release said.

The mayor assured the UK envoy of all possible cooperation in this regard.

CCC Chief Executive Officer Imtiaz Hossain Chowdhury, officials of the UK High Commission in Dhaka Tanjiba Moyeen and Shah Jalaluddin were present at the meeting.