Stitch in time
Professor Amartya Sen, the Nobel laureate, reveals through his research work that the famines of 1943 and 1974 that struck the Bengal and Bangladesh respectively was due to the breakdown of the human efforts for supply of essentials and inaccessibility of the consumers to the products and services. Thanks to the late president General Ziaur Rahman and former president General Hussain Muhammad Ershad, that altogether 18 cantonments each with a helipad and extensive capacity for carrying out huge relief activities were commissioned.
In the late 1980s, the former US president George Bush and US secretary of State James Baker authorised the US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Chester Crocker, to avert the humanitarian crisis across the drought prone areas of North Africa. Later, US president George W. Bush and former US Secretary of State General Colin Powell laid emphasis on the UN peacekeeping missions for rehabilitating and rebuilding the devastated African countries with the officers and troops mainly drawn from the Indian sub-continent.
If the donor countries and multilateral financial institutions arrange the procurement of relief goods in time, then our patriotic armed forces and the citizens at large can deliver their duty and service to avert any looming crisis and disaster in the country.
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