DHAKA, June 12, 2022 (BSS) - Speakers at a seminar here today said urban 
social welfare offices has been working for the welfare of marginalized 
people in urban areas and said that the government has been working to 
improve their life and livelihood through providing then with micro-credit.  

City Service Office-4 in Dhaka, one of 80 urban social welfare offices, 
organized the seminar on 'Effective use of microcredit and skills development 
training activities' with Social welfare officer Shahina Akhter Sweety in the 
chair.

Regional Executive Officer of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Suye Men 
Joe was the chief guest at the seminar held at the hall room of Basabo 
Dharmarajik Buddhist Mahabihar this morning. 

He said the government allowances help marginalized people survive but 
microcredit is give to make them for self-reliant. He asked the marginalized 
people not to spend the microcredit for other purposes.

He hoped that one day hundred percent people of the country will become self-
reliant through government's assistance as well as private initiatives. 

Deputy Directors of Social Welfare Office, Dhaka Md Raknul Haque and Mohammad 
Nasir Uddin, Assistant Director of Department of Social Welfare Office, Dhaka 
Mostafizur Rahman Helal and Assistant Director of Divisional Social Welfare 
Office Dhaka Abdul Jabbar also spoke at the seminar.

At the beginning of the programme, social welfare officer Shahina Akhter 
Sweety highlighted various activities of city social welfare office-4. 

The seminar was attended, among others, by people of different classes and 
professions as well as local administration, third gender, NGO 
representatives and microcredit borrowers and beneficiaries.