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Social Insurance and
FP
Sir, We listened with Inter est a view expressed by Dr Muycen Khan a member of Parliament, in the UTV pro gramme Janamat on May 4 He mentioned that In our country poor parents depend on their children for support in old age In developed coun tries this problem has been solved through Social Insu rance. Absence of any kind of social insurance in Bangladesh, in his view, is impeding progress of the FP programme
We are In lota! agreement with Ilie- view expressed by Dr Khan and are pleased to let
know our readers that with the alm <>l searching a way of overcoming this problem the Della Life Insurance Company has develope d a very special kind of insurance scheme called the Family Planning Insurance. (latter the scheme was named Soeta) Insurance for lx>w Income Adopters in short. SILIA).
Poor young couples (not having more than one child) will comprise- the target group for insurance The government will pay premiums Those among the insured families who will keep family small will receive, after 25 years, an al tractive cash sum (up to Tk 75,000). fhe- sum assured will depend on the number of chil-
dren: less the number, more the sum. Birth deferments will also cause increase in sum as sured. Arrangement may also be made to pay pension in lieu of cash lumpsum.
For carrying out a pilot project based on this Innova live insurance scheme, the government has sanctioned a sum of Tk 2 crore to Delta Life. Gazlpur and Bera upazllas have been selected for the pilot study. Work has already started. In near future, five thousand couples residing in the two areas will be brought under Insurance. Impact on FP of this insurance will be stud led after every three years.
Ferdousl Sultana
A-fi-tant Vkc President. PHD. Della Idfe Insurance Company Ud
Reader's dream
Sir, I eagerly wait throughout the week foa Friday's Dally Star. It gives me pleasure of getting a glimpse of people
and places in the wonder world of My World'. But the hawker must be funny, he falls to deliver it on some Fridays, instead, he leaves behind a nondescript one. One Friday morning 1 caught hold of him red-handed when he was almost vanished from my view. He mumbled awhile. J could not believe that The Daily Star was not published that day. No. I have no complaint against the boy. I rushed to the nearest news-stand by rickshaw and picked up Friday s Dally Star.
I do not bother for the printing mistakes here and there. Sometimes the inside sheet (pages 5-8) was found missing. I do not think this is done by the hawker. The mischief may occur somewhere in the process of delivery In the press premises.
Nonetheless, 1 like the Dally Star. I cherished a drcam of a dally of the stature of The Dally Star since August 1947.
Hadid Uddin
Zoo Hoad Housing Estate Mirpur. Dhaka