FROM RADISSON: Grameen Bank founder and Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr Muhammad Yunus said that fight for the Bank’s right will continue.

He said Grameen Bank was founded for the betterment of poor people in society. The government is trying to snatch the rights of people. We cannot abandon the aims of founding the Bank.

The Nobel laureate told media on Saturday at Radisson in city on the occasion of Social Business Day.

Social Business Day has been celebrating for five consecutive years. Around 89 countries have seen Saturday’s program.

A total of 275 guests from 31 countries are attending the daylong program, organised by Yunus Centre.

Government is formulating a new law for Grameen bank. After enacting the law, most of the shares of Grammen Bank will go to the government. It will create government dominance on the bank.

Earlier, the inaugural session was attended by envoys of several countries including the USA. Center for Justice and Human Rights president Kerry Kennedy presented keynote paper.

At the inaugural speech, Dr Yunus said unemployment is present everywhere. But no one will be unemployed. This is our challenge. The concept of social business has been working in this regard.

On country’s education sector, the Grammen Bank founder said our education system has been running in a wrong way. It has been creating students as jobseekers.

The day is being observed with the slogan of ‘We are not job-seekers, we are job-givers — turning unemployment into entrepreneurship’.

** ‘None to remain unemployed’ 
** ‘Govt taking away Grameen Bank’

BDST: 1503 HRS, JUNE 28, 2014