Staff Reporter :
Chief Adviser Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday said that the development of the Chittagong Port to drive the road communications in the city and district would inevitably improve.
The Chief Adviser came up with the remarks when he was briefed about the traffic situation of Oxygen-Hathazari road leading to Chittagong University campus.
“The development of Chittagong means the development of the whole country. Shunning the betterment of Chittagong, Bangladesh cannot move ahead. Development of Chittagong will inevitably improve road infrastructure in Chittagong city and district,” he said.
Sayed Moinul Hasan, Chief Engineer of Roads and Highways of Chittagong division, briefed the Chief Adviser about the traffic frequency of the 16 kilometre road.
On an average, 31,955 vehicles move on the road daily and 76 per cent of them are two-wheelers, slowing traffic movement, he said, adding nine markets on the two sides of the road create traffic congestion.
Suggesting for removal of the markets from the road the chief engineer proposed for a parallel road from Solosohar to Hathazari on railway land.
He also suggested construction of elevated highways to ease traffic congestion on Oxygen-Hathazari roads.
Eminent citizens of Chattogram also came up with various suggestions, including the construction of overpass after every 200-400 meters to ease traffic congestion at different junction s of the road.
Liberation War Affairs Adviser Farooq-e-Azam, Energy Adviser Dr Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan, Education Adviser CR Abrar, Health Adviser Nurjahan Begum, Fisheries and Livestocks Adviser Farida Akhter, Special Envoy Lutfey Siddiqi, BIDA Executive Chairman Chowdhury Ashik Mahmud Bin Harun, SDGs Affairs Principal Coordinator Lamiya Morshed and Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam were present.
The Chief Adviser also delivered his speech at the 5th Convocation Ceremony of Chittagong University (CU) on the day. During the visit at the CU, Professor Muhammad Yunus urged students to dream of building a new world.
“We have the capacity to build the new that we want,” he said at the Convocation Ceremony of Chittagong University (CU) on the university’s central play ground.
In his convocation speech, Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus said, “We will be able to build the world the way we want to build”.
But everyone has to have a dream about what kind of environment and society he or she wants to establish, he added.
Recalling the background of the establishment of Grameen Bank, the Chief Adviser said the ongoing civilisation is a civilisation of destructive economy.
“The economy we established is an economy of business, not of people,” he said, adding that the business-oriented civilisation is a suicidal one, which will not sustain.
Prof Yunus said he is delighted to be here in Chittagong University after a long time, recalling that he joined the CU as a teacher in 1972.
He highlighted the 1974 famine that hit the country and how Grameen Bank was formed to help the famine-hit people in Chattogram.
The Chief Adviser said the birth of Grameen Bank took place in the Economics Department of the CU.
At the function, the CU authorities conferred hononary Doctorate of Literature (D. Litt) degree on Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus for his outstanding contributions to poverty alleviation through microcredit and establishing peace across the globe.
CU Vice-Chancellor Dr Muhammad Yeahia Akhter handed over the certificate of D. Litt degree to Prof Yunus.
Education Adviser Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar and University Grants Commission Chairman Prof Dr SMA Faiz also spoke at the convocation, among others.
CU Pro-Vice Chancellor (Academic) Dr. Mohammed Shamim Uddin Khan and Pro-Vice Chancellor (administration) Md. Kamal Uddin were present on the occasion.
The CU hosted the largest convocation in the country’s history today, awarding degrees to 22,586 students.
