Bangladesh Poribeshbid Society, a national platform for environmental graduates in the country, organized Iftar Mahfil and Annual General Meeting (AGM) at a restaurant in the capital on Friday.
Environmental graduates from various universities took part in the event.
Society President A.K.M. Humayan Kabir Dewan chaired the event while Executive Director Abu Jobayer conducted it.
Director (Administration and Financial Management) Sheikh Abu Zahid presented a comprehensive overview of last year’s activities and outlined the upcoming year’s work plan during the meeting.
After the AGM, an Iftar Mahfil was organised for the environmental graduates.
Ehsanul Haque, Project Lead, GIS & Remote Sensing, World Bank-Bangladesh; Shahadat Hussain, In-charge of Investigative Creeds’ Ziaul Haque, In-charge of PDCA; Syed Zerif Uddin Ahmed, CEO and Chief Researcher of EcoTopia Consultancy & Solutions and others were present as guests at the Iftar.
Poribeshbid Society Director (Education and Professional Development) F M Ashraful Alam, Director (Publicity and Communication) Md. Abdul Quader Talukder, Director (International Affairs) Rashedul Alam Sarkar, Director (Environmental Awareness) Md. Raihan Palash, Director (Environmental Law and Policy) Md. Tofail Hossain, Executive Member Md. Atiqur Rahman Mallick, Rashedur Rahman, Tanzima Haque Trisha, Sujit Kumar Roy and Md. Mustafizur Rahman Rabbi were also present.
With great pleasure, I welcome you all to Bangladesh Poribeshbid Society- a national level platform for all environmental graduates in Bangladesh. We wish to be connected with environmental graduates and put collective efforts to progress environmental education and professional development of the graduates. From the beginning of the Society, we have already started various activities for supporting our members through providing information on jobs and scholarship opportunities, creating awareness through seminars and publications, and connecting graduates and current students through networking programs. We will explore every opportunity for our members and establish our professional positions in all sectors in Bangladesh. Also, we will take collaborative actions with other environmental organizations for enhancing environmental awareness and environmental protection in Bangladesh. I expect your warm and heartiest cooperation for fulfilling our mission and vision of the Society.
Environment is now one of the words that is used by all types of communities including scientist, businessman, public and private sectors in around the world. It becomes a central issue not only for Bangladesh context as well as in the international debate in the early part of twenty first century. Since 1996, different public and private universities of Bangladesh offer courses for the Environmental Science related Department. But the Environment Graduates are facing lot of challenges to develop their professional careers in this sector due to less professional skills and communications. For these challenges environment graduates felt to establish their own organization to develop academic excellence and professional careers in national and international level. By this visionary thought, Bangladesh Poribeshbid Society established in 2020. Now it is a national platform for all environment graduates of Bangladesh. Beside the professional and educational development, the society always encourage all types of peoples to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature, and to ensure that natural resources are used in an equitable and ecologically sustainable manner. The society always ready to provide any types of support to government and non-government organizations for improving and implementing environment policies, laws and regulations. We always welcome to all environment graduates of Bangladesh in our dream platform.