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RE: Prof Yunus News
 
I am reacting to the news of Prof Yunus and that I do not wish to conclude defaming our national pride. I also understand our Finance Minister AMA Muhith has said that there was nothing wrong in the transfer of funds from Grameen Bank to Grameen Kalyan and vice versa.

Frankly , the news brought very many debate in Bangladeshi Beltway politics and I am sure of the same around the world.

I believe it is a misleading news and personal vendetta against prof Yunus that strategically published globally.

I shame and specially regret and object to BDNews. 24  on Dec 1,  that a statement  " siphoning off " of a large amount money by Professor Yunus"

It is cruel and a personal vendetta to defame our national pride around the world.

I hope, the news and the investigation is false and a total fabrication and baseless.

and we wait to see an independent investigation.

By : Dilawar Hossain

 

 



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[chottala.com] Palliphone women are gone Norwegian TV reports new findings



4 Dec 2010   10:00:51 PM   Saturday BdST    

Palliphone women are gone Norwegian TV reports new findings


Palliphone women are gone Norwegian TV reports new findings
Anwarul Karim, Senior Correspondent
banglanews24.com

DHAKA: Victorian stories about phone women in Bangladesh who are fighting their way out of poverty by selling units for Grameenphone turn serious cracks, reports NRK, the Norwegian state-run television.

Harald Eraker, a Swedish-born journalist, wrote the story for the television.
The TV ran the story on December 1.

The report says in fixing the speeches spoken is still much about Village Phone program, if the women in rural areas, who, through Grameenphone, were helped out of poverty.
 
The company boasts on its website that the Village Phone program has 270, 000 "telephone Women" in 50000 villages that sell units for them.
 
Yunus himself was full of praise for the program when he gave his speech when he received the Nobel Peace Prize. "Telephone-ladies quickly learned and innovated the telephone business, which has become the fastest way to get out of poverty and achieve social respectability. Today there are nearly 300,000 telephone ladies providing telephone services in villages of Bangladesh. "

The truth is that today there is no longer any phone woman. Focus has talked with a centrally placed source in the Grameen system, the report says.

Grameen Telecom, which owns Grameenphone together with Telenor, has a record of old called Village Phone program, and listed with 3,81,000 customers.

But this is the sale of SIM cards to regular customers, and not to women who sell phone calls to others and make money at it, the report commented.
It has mentioned that sales of mobile phones has exploded in Bangladesh and that people therefore have no need for the mobile `phone kiosks "that phone women previously represented.

It has been a dramatic decline in the number of telephone women, the NRK report quoted information manager Esben Tuman Telenor as saying.

"If there are any telephone women who still rent out their mobiles, there is little evidence to suggest that there are a few of them that come out of poverty through the Village Phone program," he was further quoted.

The reference of a book by Mazharul Hannan, one of the bosses of Grameen Telecom, was also given in the report where he said, "The program (Village Phone) is not dead, but is no longer a way out of poverty."

The report mentioned Professor Yunus had made a new "ground-breaking idea". That was the message from the Norwegian Embassy in Dhaka in Bangladesh in a memo marked "not public" that was sent to Norad 7 November 1994.
 
The breakthrough idea was to create a new "non-profit corporation" with the name Grameenphone. The spine should be women in rural areas that would be helped out of poverty: "The women will, through borrowing, buy the phone and make money by renting out phone calls to individuals."

Sixteen years later, Grameenphone was owned by Norwegian Telenor (55.8%) and Grameen Telecom (34.2%), one of the most successful companies in Bangladesh. The company has granted Telenor huge profits.

According to the Norwegian telecom giant Telenor, Grameenphone made a dividend of NOK 855 million over the past eight years.

'So how was a "non-profit company, which would help women out of poverty, linked to a purely commercial company that gave the Norwegian telecom giant huge profits?" The report raised a question.

It also said millions of borrowers in the bank, mostly poor women, were encouraged to take up a new loan to buy a mobile phone from Grameen Telecom, which together with Telenor owns Grameenphone.

The report mentioned, in other words, four Grameen companies involved in the phone women`s lives in the following way: Grameen Bank gave micro-credit so that women could buy phones from Grameen Telecom and Grameen Shakti sells solar panels so that Telephone women can charge for Grameenphone.

BDST 2200 HRS, DEC 04, 2010

Source:

http://www.banglanews24.com/English/detailsnews.php?nssl=ebe4bab9796d8591e73101a9b2cf6296&nttl=201012049828

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