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[2] [3] [4] The core of the BRDB efforts is the design and implementation of a series of integrated rural development (RD) projects (e.g. RD-5, RD-9 and RD-12) and a Rural Poor Cooperative Project (RPCP). The landless men and women, marginal and small farmers constitute the target population of these projects.
East Pakistan Academy for Rural Development was established in 1959 in Comilla as EPARD under the initiative of Dr Akhtar Hameed Khan who became the institution's founder-Director. After the Bangladesh War of Independence, the institution was renamed to its present form. [1] [2]
Akbar was born on 7 July 1949, in Bangalore, India, to Sadiq Ali Khan and Fatima. His father was an Afghan from Ghazni, Afghanistan, while his mother had Persian ancestry from Iran. His brothers are the legendary actor-filmmaker Feroz Khan, actor-filmmaker Sanjay Khan, Sameer Khan and Shahruq Khan. His sisters are Dilshad and Khurshid.
Akbar Khan's wife, Nasim Shahnawaz (daughter of the famous Muslim League woman politician Begum Jahanara Shahnawaz), was quite indiscreet in her conversation, criticizing the Government and its policies before all and sundry, as did Akbar Khan himself, to some extent. He thus came under the watch of the intelligence agencies.
Akbar (1542–1602), Mughal emperor; Wazir Akbar Khan (1816–1845), Afghan prince, general and tribal leader involved in the first Anglo-Afghan War; Muhammad Akbar Khan (politician) (fl. 1920), member of the Punjab Province legislative council
Akbar Khan was born on 16 August 1962 [6] in a Muslim family to Kistoor Khan, a farmer and Rahmat Begum, a housewife, at Bangasar, located in the Indian state of Rajasthan with Leber's congenital amaurosis, a rare inherited eye disease that appears at birth or in the first few months of life, and occurs in 2 to 3 per 100,000 newborns of the population. [7]
In October 2007, Khan parted ways with the PPP and became a member of the Pakistan Muslim League (N). [12] In the 2008 general election, he campaigned from NA-81 (Faisalabad-VII). He received 23,305 votes and placed third in the poll behind runner-up Nisar Ahmad Jutt of the PML-Q, losing to PPP's winning candidate Chaudhry Saeed Iqbal.
It is the largest power distribution organization in Bangladesh. [2] BREB has brought all the 461 upazilas on grid under 100% electrification. [ 3 ] Major General S M Zia-Ul-Azim is the present chairman of the board.