BSS, Dhaka :
A seven-day Development Fair-2014 is set to begin today at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) in the city on the occasion of 25th founding anniversary of Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) aiming to promote poverty alleviation initiatives to lift millions out of poverty.
During the fair, a total of 14 seminars on poverty alleviations, human dignity and development will be held where ministers, secretaries, economists, researchers, members of civil society and representatives of different non-government organizations are expected to attend. Development specialists and discussants from India, Vietnam, Uzbekistan and the USA are expected to attend the seminars. Alongside holding seminars, poor people will be given opportunities to display and sale their products at the fair, Managing Director of PKSF Md Abdul Karim told a press conference at the Jatiya Press Club here.
PKSF Chairman Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad, Deputy Managing Director (Programme) of PKSF Golam Touhid and Deputy Managing Director(Administration and Finance) Dr Zasim Uddun, among others, were present at the press conference.
