Chief Adviser Dr. Muhammad Yunus. Episode -02.
Chief Adviser of Bangladesh Muhammad Yunus.
Dear viewers, Assalamu Alaikum, in this episode of Mayakon English, we will discuss the family, childhood and educational life of Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the head of the current interim government of Bangladesh, the chief advisor.
Muhammad Yunus was born on June 28, 1940, in a Bengali Muslim family in Bathua village, Shikarpur Union, Hathazari Upazila, Chittagong, the then Bengal Presidency of British India (present-day Bangladesh).
He was the third of nine siblings. His father's name was Haji Dula Mia Sawdagar. And his mother's name was Sufia Khatun. He spent his childhood in the village.
In 1944, his family moved to Chittagong city and at that time he enrolled in Lamabazar Primary School from the village school and continued his studies.
Later, he passed the matriculation examination with great distinction from Chittagong Collegiate School, securing 16th place out of 39,000 students who passed the matriculation examination in East Pakistan.
During his school life, Muhammad Yunus was an active Boy Scout and participated in jamborees in West Pakistan and India in 1952 and in Canada in 1955.
Later, Muhammad Yunus completed his A-A from Chittagong College and joined the Department of Economics at Dhaka University in 1957, completing his Bachelor of Arts in 1960 and Master of Arts in 1961.
After graduation, he joined the Bureau of Economics as a research assistant in economic studies by Nurul Islam and Rehman Sobhan.
He was appointed as a lecturer in economics at Chittagong College in 1961.
During that time, he also established a profitable packaging factory in addition to his duties as a lecturer.
In 1965, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the United States.
In 1971, he obtained a PhD in economics from the Graduate Program in Economic Development (GPED) at Vanderbilt University.
During that time, from 1969 to 1972, Dr. Yunus was an assistant professor of economics at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro.
During the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, he founded a citizen's committee and, along with other Bangladeshis, ran the Bangladesh Information Center to gather support for the liberation war in the United States.
He used to publish the 'Bangladesh Newsletter' from his home in Nashville, USA.
After the war, he returned to Bangladesh and was appointed to the Planning Commission of the then government under the leadership of Nurul Islam and served for a few years.
Later, he joined the Department of Economics at Chittagong University as an associate professor and served as the head of the department.
In 1975, he was promoted to the rank of professor and served in this position until 1989.
During the famine that struck Bangladesh in 1974, Dr. Yunus began his struggle against poverty.
He realized that small amounts of credit could play a very effective role in improving the quality of life of the poor. At that time, he launched a rural economic project for research purposes.
In 1974, Muhammad Yunus established Tebhaga Farm, which the government acquired under the Package Program.
To make the project more effective, Muhammad Yunus and his associates proposed the 'Gram Sarkar' program.
Which was introduced by President Ziaur Rahman in the late 1970s. Under this program, the government formed 40,392 village governments in 2003, which functioned as the fourth tier of government.
However, on 2 August 2005, the High Court declared the village government illegal and unconstitutional in response to a petition filed by the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST).
Muhammad Yunus's microfinance concept to support innovators in various developing countries inspired programs like the 'Info Lady Social Entrepreneurship' program.
Dear viewers, this is all for today. May everyone be well. Assalamu Alaikum.
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