BSS, Rajshahi :
Speakers at a training workshop here yesterday laid importance on early age good practices and education with commitment of honesty and sincerity to build a nation free from corruption and unfair means.
Integrated District office of Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) organised the workshop at Auditorium of Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) here on Monday on grooming up the students with the anti-corruption mindset from their childhood.
Deputy Commissioner of Rajshahi Hamidul Haque addressed the meeting as focal person while ACC Divisional Director Morshed Alam was in the chair. ACC Deputy Director Jahangir Alam and LGED Executive Engineer Saniul Haque also spoke on the occasion as resource persons.
Members of corruption prevention committees from Natore, Chapainawabgonj, Naogaon and Rajshahi furnished different ideas for formulation and application of various strategies to combat corruption.
If the students were taught about the best practices they would not be corrupted in their practical life, speakers opined.
Collective efforts to ensure safe food
Speakers at a meeting laid emphasis on concerted efforts among all government and non-government organisations for ensuring food safety and hygiene.
All sorts of unhygienic and unsafe foods are injurious to public health, they made the observation at the meeting on “Food hygiene and food safety”.
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) jointly organized the meeting at the mayor’s city bhaban office here recently.
Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton and its Chief Health Officer Dr AFM Anjuman
Ara Begum addressed the meeting on behalf of the city corporation while Adviser Ali Imam Majumder and its technical expert Kanako Tanigaki, Consultants Atsumi Koyema and Mana Ishigaki and Junior Consultant Washek Billah took part in the meeting on behalf of JICA.
Liton said fight against food adulteration has intensified after the government established Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) on February 2, 2015.
He stressed the need for creating mass awareness among all levels of people to check food adulteration.
