PKSF Day today
State-run Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) is going to celebrate its first PKSF day today with the slogan "Towards Development, with Equity", reaffirming its efforts in alleviating poverty through employment generation since being established in 1990.
The ceremony will be held at Krishibid Institution Bangladesh with Gowher Rizvi, the prime minister's international affairs adviser, and Sharifa Khan, secretary to Economic Relations Division of the finance ministry, scheduled to be present as chief and special guests respectively.
PKSF Chairman Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad will preside over the programme.
Dr Nomita Halder, managing director of the PKSF, made the announcement at a press briefing at National Press Club yesterday.
She said the PKSF was working as a complementary force of the government in reducing the poverty rate to 21.8 per cent in 2018 from 59 per cent in 1991 as per the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.
Meanwhile, the extreme poor fell from 43 per cent to 11.9 per cent.
Besides, as many as 23 lakh micro-entrepreneurs are now receiving various financial and technical support from the PKSF.
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