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'Poverty alleviation scheme must ensure human dignity'
NEW DELHI. Aug 8: Founder of Grameen Bank Prof Muhammad Yunus said here today that a poverty alleviation scheme must provide every poor with the opportunities to’ reveal his creativity and ensure human dignity, reports BSS.
"To create a poverty-free world, we need new analytical framework which takes ensuring human dignity to every human being as Its central task." he said while speaking at the third D T Lakdawala Memorial Lecture on the "towards creating a poverty-free world" In Nehru Memorial Museum auditorium.
Organised by the Institute of Social Sciences, the function was presided over by Indian Finance Minister P Chidambaram.
Home Minister Indrajit Gupta. Samata Party Chief George Fernandez MP, Geeta Mukherjee MP (CPI). Acting High Commissioner of Bangladesh in New Delhi. Alim UI Haque, academics and diplo-
mats were present.
Prof Yunus in his 75-minute lecture dwelt on the activities of the Grameen Bank and suggested measures to remove the curse of poverty from the society.
He said the policy needed for eradication of poverty must be much wider and deeper than the policy for the provision of more employment.
Referring to the Grameen Phone. Prof Yunus said it is a nationwide cellular telephone company which hopes to serve about one million cellular phone users in both urban and rural areas of Bangladesh by the year 2003.
Many of the Grameen borrowers, he said, will become the telephone ladies of the villages. "A poor woman who never saw a telephone or even an electric bulb in her life will own a cellular phone and start selling the service of the phone to the villagers to earn better Income," he a Aled
He said ultimately Grameen
borrowers will become the owners of the telephone company by buying up the shares, as they did in the case of Grameen Bank.
Prof Yunus said with the modern development of information and communication technology, every person on the planet will have an e-mail address by 2003.
He said technology and economic necessity will bring the humanity closer to a borderless and distanceless world. "If we start feeling comfortable, was can move from regional to inter regional, and finally to global agreement to allow free and unhindered flow of people, finance. commodities and services from any location of the planet to other location.
Speaking on the occasion. Indian Finance Minister P Chidambaram paid tributes to Prof Yunus and said the Grameen Bank had proved that the poor people were credit-worthy and they were willing to be self-employed.