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[media type="image" id="943805" layout="small" position="right" caption="1"][/media] The proposed budget for the fiscal year 2021-22 has failed to address pressing issues related to healthcare, poverty, unemployment, and CMSMEs even though they required special attention to protect lives and livelihoods amid the pandemic. The needs of the poor and the marginalised have also
Thirty-year-old Dipali Nokrek made a career out of doing one thing making people look beautiful.
Starting her career as an apprentice at one of Dhaka s well-known beauty salons, she worked for over 18 years in more than a dozen parlours. All was well until the nationwide shutdown was imposed last year to contain the spread of Covid-19.
She was fired from her job while her husband had his pay cut by half at his job at an RMG factory. Soon, the couple s savings dried up and they fell behind in five months rent.
Six months after she was fired, she started a makeshift beauty parlour in one room of her neighbour s house, taking loans and help from relatives.
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