United News of Bangladesh

President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday urged all concerned to take effective measures to build a neutral, orderly, affordable and transparent migration system. “Migration should be viewed as one of the important means of development and poverty reduction,” he said. The President made the remarks when a delegation of the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU), led by its Executive Director Dr Tasneem Siddiqui, paid a courtesy call on him at Bangabhaban. During the meeting, the delegation proposed an initiative to declare a “Decade of Migration” to make more effective use of the contributions of migrants. Tasneem, also a former teacher of the Department of Political Science at Dhaka University, invited the President to attend an event marking RMMRU’s 30th anniversary as the chief guest. The President assured the delegation that he will attend the programme. During the meeting, Tasneem briefed the President on RMMRU’s 30 years of research, field-level activities and achievements. She said the organisation has been conducting research and working at the policy level for a long time on issues related to labour migration, internal displacement, refugees and migrant workers.