BEA awards three

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, 4-R, poses with the relatives of BEA Gold Award-2010 recipients at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in Dhaka yesterday. All the three awards were posthumous and the awardees were members of Bangladesh Economic Association (BEA). Asma Kibria, 5-R, wife of Shah AMS Kibria; Noorjahan Bose, 3-R, wife of Dr Swadesh Ranjan Bose; and Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury, 2-R, wife of Bazlur Rahman, received the awards on behalf of their husbands. BEA President Qazi Kholiquzzaman, 3-L, is also seen.

Bangladesh Economic Association (BEA) yesterday awarded three personalities for their outstanding performance in their respective fields during their lifetime.
The recipients of BEA Gold Award-2010 are late finance minister Shah AMS Kibria (posthumous), economist Dr Swadesh Ranjan (SR) Bose (posthumous) and former editor of Bengali daily the Sangbad Bazlur Rahman (posthumous).
All the winners were the lifetime members of the BEA and were students of economics.
The BEA awarded them on the occasion of the association's 17th biennial conference at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in Dhaka.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina handed the medals to the relatives of the winners at the inaugural session of the three-day conference that began yesterday.
Asma Kibria, wife of Shah AMS Kibria, received the medal on behalf of her husband, Noorjahan Bose and Jasim Ahmed, wife and son of SR Bose, received the medal on behalf of SR Bose and Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury received the medal on behalf of her husband Bazlur Rahman.
Kibria was the finance minister of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2001. He did his MA in economics from Dhaka University. He joined Pakistan foreign services in 1954 and had worked as a diplomat in many countries since 1957.
SR Bose was a successful researcher at former Pakistan Institute of Development Economics and the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies.
An MA in economics from Dhaka University, journalist Bazlur Rahman started his career in 1961 as an assistant editor of the daily Sangbad. He also worked for the daily Ittefaq.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith attended the inaugural ceremony as a special guest while BEA President Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad chaired the session.