'Know Bangladesh' programme kicks off
Star Business Desk
A programme styled 'Know Bangladesh' under the auspices of Biswa
Shahitto Kendro (BSK), a centre for promoting reader****p, and mobile phone
operator Grameenphone's youth brand djuice started yesterday.
The programme is a bicycle tour across Bangladesh by the youth to
learn more about the lifestyle and the hard****ps of the rural and
semi-urban
people of the country, according to a press release.
To mark the occasion a press conference was organised in Dhaka
yesterday where Prof Abdullah Abu Sayeed, BSK chairman, and Khaled Hasan,
director, Cor****ate Affairs, and Rajeeb Bhattacharjee, head of Youth
Segment, on behalf of Grameenphone and djuice were present.
Participants will comprise a three- to ten-member group, each with a
group leader, who will also serve as the correspondent to BSK, and a
captain, to lead from the front.
All trips will start from Dhaka by bicycles on specified routes.
Different groups may travel to different places at the same time and the
duration of each trip may vary from 5 to 15 days. However, the trip cannot
exceed 300 miles.
Prof Abdullah Abu Sayeed, chairman of Biswa Shahitto Kendro (BSK), a
centre
for promoting reader****p, speaks at a press conference in Dhaka yesterday
on
the occasion of launching 'Know Bangladesh' programme jointly organised by
BSK and Grameenphone. Senior officials of the mobile phone operator were
also present. Photo: Grameenphone
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