M A Samad's anniversary of death today
Today is the 5th death anniversary of M A Samad, founder of Bangladesh General Insurance Company Limited (BGIC), says a press release. His family members and BGIC family have requested all friends, well-wishers and relatives to pray for the salvation of the departed soul. Samad was associated with the insurance industry since 1946 and established BGIC after his retirement as managing director of Jiban Bima Corporation. Samad, an honours graduate from Presidency College in Kolkata with a brilliant academic career all through, was also the founder director of Bangladesh Insurance Academy, an institution established by the government for professional training. He wrote two books in Bengali, one on life insurance and another on general insurance, and two more English textbooks on life insurance. These received high appreciation from renowned insurance organisations abroad. Samad was enlisted as an international expert in the Technical Assistance Programme on Trade and Development of the United Nations. He was also a former chairman of Bangladesh Insurance Association, the country's apex insurance entity. He was born at Kulaura in Moulvibazar in a respectable Muslim family in 1923.
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