Female entrepreneurs face bigger challenges compared to their male counterparts, including social stigma and a lack of access to finance, which necessitates doubling down on creativity, adaptability and vision for success, experts said yesterday.
Emphasised should be given also on internal capacity building, export diversification, foreign direct investment and skill enhancement for preparing the country for the post-graduation scenario
At a public hearing over a Titas proposal to increase gas prices, consumers yesterday hit out at the distributor for failing to snap illegal connections, prevent gas theft, and ensure uninterrupted supply.
Although 10 months have passed since the government s announcement of daily quarantine allowance, no doctor, nurse or healthcare frontliners in the war against Covid-19 received the money.
The frontliners, who would not avail government-provided free accommodation for quarantine, were supposed to get the money from July 1 last year. It is the sheer negligence on the government s part that it could not fulfil its promise. This will create mistrust between the government and the healthcare professionals, Prof Iqbal Arsalan, president of Swadhinata Chikitsak Parishad, a pro-Awami League doctors organisation, told The Daily Star.
He said, It is unacceptable that only the healthcare professionals will have to take all the responsibilities, not the health ministry.