Among the 10 initiatives selected in the Star DEI Team of the Year, titled by the Foreign Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) arranged on the 60th Anniversary, Grameenphone has been awarded the Team of the Year Special Mention. In two categories: Winner and Honorable, the Champion of the Year title went to Bayer Crop Science Limited.
FBCCI President Mahbubul Alam handed over the award to Grameenphone team in the presence of ICT State Minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak. Grameenphone Head of Marketing, Farha Naz Zamanreceived this award while Head of Public and Regulatory Affairs, Hossain Sadat & Head of Network Services AKM Al-Amin were present along with her.
GP received this honor for creating a She platform for university students and achieving a 65 percent growth in women workforce inclusion index in the last five years, including CXO.
And the Bayer Crop Science Limited team received the award from Prime Minister’s Investment Adviser Salman Fazlur Rahman for building ‘Samabesh’ platform to create employment and develop skills for the success of girls studying agriculture by integrating them into the agricultural industry. The team has brought small and cottage farmers on one platform.
The winners were awarded on Monday night at the closing ceremony of FICCI’s two-day long gathering which represented more than two hundred members from 35 countries at Hotel Radisson Blue Water Garden Hotel in Dhaka. Winners of the event were Star DEI Team of the Year Award Unilever Bangladesh Limited and DEI Champion of the Year Award Berger Paints Bangladesh Limited.
Zakia Sultana, Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Tapan Kanti Ghosh, Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, Tapan Kanti Ghosh, Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce were present at the event.