Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Minister for Rural Development and Co-operatives Division 7B Swapan Bhattacharjee (born 1952) MP for Jessore-5 (State Minister) Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives (7) Md Tazul Islam (born 1955) MP for Comilla-9: 11 January 2024 9 August 2024 211 days: Awami League: Hasina V: Sheikh Hasina: C5 A. F. Hassan Ariff ...
The term rural development is not limited to issues of developing countries. In fact many developed countries have very active rural development programs. [citation needed] Rural development aims at finding ways to improve rural lives with the participation of rural people themselves, so as to meet the required needs of rural communities. [20]
The Bengali word parishad means council and zila parishad translates to district council. The Deputy Commissioner (popularly abbreviated to "DC") is the executive head of the district. The Deputy Commissioner is appointed by the government from a Joint secretary of the B.C.S. Administration Cadre.
Union council (Bengali: ইউনিয়ন পরিষদ, romanized: iuniẏana pariṣada), also known as union parishad, rural council, rural union and simply union, is the smallest rural administrative and local government unit in Bangladesh, [1] with zila parishads (district councils) being the largest rural authorities and upazila parishads (sub-district council) being the ...
BRAC is the largest non-governmental development organisation in the world, in terms of the number of employees, as of September 2016. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Established by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed in 1972 after the independence of Bangladesh , BRAC is present in all 64 districts of Bangladesh as well as 16 other countries in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
[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.
9. Innovation is an effective way to reach government service villages. In order to effectively implement these six priorities, the Academy took initiative in the sixties. BARD is an autonomous organization under the Department of Rural Development and Cooperatives of the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives.
The rural areas of Bangladesh (i.e. villages) are characterized by higher growth rate of population and lower literacy rate compared to urban areas - but these gaps are decreasing. [3] After independence, the villages in Bangladesh were underdeveloped in terms of infrastructure and economic activity.