Muhamad Yasin is a development worker, founder of Deedar Comprehensive Village Cooperative Society, and recipient of Independence Award, the highest civilian award in Bangladesh.
Biography
Yasin established Deedar Comprehensive Village Cooperative Society in 1960 in Comilla District. Yasin was a law enforcement officer who lost his job and imprisoned for protesting in the 1950s. He started a tea stall and purchased a few rickshaws. Following the advice of Akhtar Hameed Khan, founder of Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development, he formed a cooperative society to work for the benefit of low income villagers.
Deedar Comprehensive Village Cooperative Society won the Independence Award in 1984. It won the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1988. It has won the National Agriculture Awards and the National Cooperative Award.
Yasin was awarded the Independence Award in 1990 for rural development.
Yasin died on 17 October 1999.
References
- ^ "How a co-operative society in Cumilla helps two villages prosper". The Business Standard. 2021-11-09. Retrieved 2024-06-25.
- "JAAGO Foundation: Korvi Rakshand, 3 others win Ramon Magsaysay award". Prothomalo. 2023-08-31. Retrieved 2024-06-25.
- "Independence Day Award" (PDF). Bangladesh Rice Research Institute. 2008-07-27. Retrieved 2024-09-04.