Supply 7 lakh tonnes of food grains to Bangladesh

November 15, 1972       

UN APPEAL

Sir Robert Jackson, United Nations under secretary general and chief coordinator of the United Nations relief operations in Bangladesh, told newsmen yesterday that the UN secretary general had appealed to donor countries to make available 7 lakh tonnes of food grains for Bangladesh. He estimated next year's food grains deficit in Bangladesh at 9 lakh tonnes. Aman Crop is expected to be around 2 lakh tonnes. He said that the United States had already responded to request and promised to provide 1 lakh tonnes of food grains to Bangladesh government. Due to failure of monsoon, next year crops production was going to be average, he added.

TAGORE'S PAINTING PRESENTED TO BANGABANDHU

An original painting by Rabindranath Tagore and some other items of fine arts are presented to Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by Ranu Mukherjee, president of the Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta today at the Gono Bhaban.

SAMAD APPRISES PM OF EASTERN EUROPE TOUR OUTCOME

Foreign Minister Abdus Samad Azad today apprises Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman about the outcome of his tour of six East European countries. Foreign Minister returned to Dhaka yesterday from his tour. Abdus Samad sees the prime minister at the latter's office at Bangladesh Secretariat.

TEACHERS' STRIKE CALLED OFF

Bangladesh Non-government Secondary Teachers Association calls off its proposed strike. The proposed strike which is to begin from tomorrow is called off by the association in view of the prime minister's sympathetic intervention, says an announcement by the association's General Secretary Jainul Abedin after a meeting with the Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS REORGANISED

The government has reorganised the existing financial bodies and set up two new institutions, the Bangladesh Shilpa Rin Sangstha and the Bangladesh Shilpa Bank. The reorganisaiton has been made to streamline the work of the specialised industrial financing institutions and to meet the demand of industrial finance for private as well as the nationalised sectors.

SOURCES: November 16, 1972 issues of Bangladesh Observer, Dainik Bangla and Dainik Ittefaq.