Bogura municipality organised a regional campaign and seminar on Local Economic Development and the role of municipalities at Shaheed Titu Auditorium in the city on Monday.
During the occasion, a three-day training workshop on LED was also inaugurated for 60 officials and business representatives from 11 municipalities in the district, said a press release.
The campaign was supported by PRABRIDDHI, a Local Economic Development project, funded by the governments of Bangladesh and Switzerland, co-implemented by the local government division and Swisscontact Bangladesh.
The chief guest of the event was Hosna Afroza, deputy commissioner and senior district magistrate of Bogura. Guests included Jiban Krishna Saha Roy, director general of Bangladesh Investment Development Authority, Rezaul Karim Badshah, former mayor of Bogura municipality and Rukhen Uddin Ahmed, senior advisor of the PRABRIDDHI project. More than 300 participants, including local government officials, business representatives, journalists, women entrepreneurs and student delegates attended the event.
The welcome speech was delivered by Md Masum Ali Beg, deputy secretary, administrator of Bogura municipality and deputy director of local government.
Rukhen Uddin Ahmed presented the Bangladeshi LED model and shared experiences from different municipalities. The activities of the PRABRIDDHI project in Bogura municipality were presented by executive officer Shahjahan Alam. In addition, Razedur Rahman Razu, general secretary of the Bangladesh Agricultural Machinery Merchants Association, delivered a speech, highlighting PROGRESS鈥檚 role in developing the light engineering sector.
