I must appreciate your sincere initiatives towards ensuring welfare of the common Americans particularly of the middle-class together with your husband President Barack Obama. I take keen interest in your work and plan and regularly read your letters sent through the "Obama for America." In the most recent letter you have talked about the welfare of the middle-class.

In this connection, I would like to draw your kind attention to our society where the middleclass and the lower-middle-class people are struggling hard to survive in jobs with meagre pay. A great number of people mainly women are working in the garment sector. But unfortunately, the US has suspended GSP facility which has pushed the future of our garment industry into uncertainty. I would like to request your good office as the US first lady to please take an initiative to withdraw the suspension of GSP facility for Bangladesh.

Professor M Zahidul Haque Dean, Faculty of Agriculture SAU, Dhaka