Wow!
Hasina asked to change the airport name and she puts it to a vote!
How elegant, how democratic!
Zia International Airport will remain ZIA International Airport for most
people in Bangladesh.
We are still confused about 'digital time'!
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bd_mailer@...> wrote:
>
> Govt plans to rename ZIA
> PM requested to rename structures named after Zia
> Â
> The government is going to change the name of the country’s
biggest airport, now called the Zia International Airport, and rename it
after the great saint, Hazrat Shahjalal (RA), said highly placed sources
in the government.
> Â Â Â
> The Cabinet at its weekly meeting on Monday decided, in principle, to
go along with the proposal of Awami League’s general secretary
and LGRD and cooperatives minister, Syed Ashraful Islam, who suggested
the renaming of the capital’s aerodrome, a minister told New Age.
> Â Â Â
> Named after Bangladesh’s former president and the Bangladesh
Nationalist Party’s founder, Ziaur Rahman, the airport began
operating in 1981. ZIA is the nation’s largest airport with a
total area of 1,300 acres. More than 16 international airlines use this
airport which handles half a million passengers and 98,000 million
tonnes cargo annually, according to official records.
> Â Â Â
> Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who presided over the meeting of the
Cabinet, was requested to change the names of the structures which were
named after Ziaur Rahman during the tenures of the BNP-led governments,
said the minister.
> Â Â Â
> Ashraf proposed the changing of the name of ZIA, and then the PM asked
all present to propose the new name, and the name of Hazrat Shahjalal
(RA) was approved, said insiders who were at the meeting.
> Â Â Â
> Referring to BNP’s secretary-general Khandaker Delwar Hossain,
Hasina, also the ruling Awami League’s president, said that the
BNP has spent cores of taka for holding its council session but has
appointed the same man as the secretary-general, said the minister.
> Â Â Â
> Referring to the BNP’s newly constituted national standing
committee, she said that Khaleda had appointed terrorists and corrupt
persons to the BNP’s highest policy-making body, said sources.
> Â Â Â
> The Cabinet also decided to recruit 2,627 diploma nurses on an
emergency basis and to upgrade their status from Class III to Class
II.The PM’s press secretary, Abul Kalam Azad, told newsmen that
currently 9,000 nurses, who passed the 4-year diploma course, are
unemployed. The present doctor-nurse ratio is 2:1 but standard ratio
throughout the world is 1:3.
> Â Â Â
> Hasina stressed the need for improving the professional quality as
well as social status of the nurses.She asked the concerned ministry to
formulate a new policy for recruitment of the nurses and said the
government would encourage the private enterprises to set up training
centres for nurses to improve the standard of nursing so that the
country can send skilled nurses to work abroad, said the minister.
> Â Â Â
> The Cabinet also endorsed a proposal to set up Barisal Science and
Technology University in response to Barisal City Corporation
mayor’s request, and to this end it approved the Barisal
University (Amendment) Bill 2009 and also approved, in principle, the
Barisal Science and Technology (Amendment) Act.
> Â Â Â Sheikh Hasina said that the government would set up a
full-fledged university in Barisal and the university would be named
Barisal University, said sources.
> Â Â Â The premier, during her previous tenure in 1996,
announced the setting up of Barisal University, but the next government
of Khaleda Zia changed the name of the university to Ziaur Rahman
College.
> Â Â Â Hasina asked the law and home affairs ministers to take
immediate steps for withdrawing the ‘politically
motivated’ cases filed against Awami League leaders and activists
by the BNP-Jamaat regime, said sources.
> Â Â Â The government on February 17 set up an inter-ministry
committee to review the ‘politically motivated’ cases,
especially those filed against politicians, during the regimes of the
BNP-Jamaat government and the interim administration, and the committee
has so far recommended withdrawal of a total of 1,183 cases.
> Â Â Â The Cabinet has also shifted the responsibility of
running Fazil and Kamil education to the Islamic University from the
National University after giving the final approval to the Islamic
University Amendment Bill 2000, and in this regard endorsed the draft of
the Islami University (Amendment) Act 2009.
> Â
> http://www.newagebd.com/2009/dec/15/front.html
>
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