Rear Admiral Shaheen’s Role in Mongla Port Workers’ Development

Mongla Port Chairman Rear Admiral M. Shaheen Rahman has contributed significantly to ensuring a 26 percent wage increase, improved housing facilities, and adequate medical services for workers at Mongla Port. A tripartite meeting aimed at ensuring the welfare, safety, and socio-economic development of port workers was held on January 14 in the conference room of Mongla Port Authority. The meeting was presided over by Port Chairman Rear Admiral Shaheen Rahman, where several important and groundbreaking decisions were taken with the direct cooperation of the port authority. According to the workers’ demands raised during the meeting, it was decided through negotiations...

5

Mongla Port Chairman Rear Admiral M. Shaheen Rahman has contributed significantly to ensuring a 26 percent wage increase, improved housing facilities, and adequate medical services for workers at Mongla Port.

A tripartite meeting aimed at ensuring the welfare, safety, and socio-economic development of port workers was held on January 14 in the conference room of Mongla Port Authority. The meeting was presided over by Port Chairman Rear Admiral Shaheen Rahman, where several important and groundbreaking decisions were taken with the direct cooperation of the port authority.

According to the workers’ demands raised during the meeting, it was decided through negotiations between the workers and the owners’ representatives to increase wages by 26 percent based on an eight-hour workday.

To ensure proper accommodation facilities for workers, Port Chairman Rear Admiral Shaheen Rahman directed the Property Branch and Engineering Department to take necessary steps to renovate habitable buildings in the old Mongla residential area for housing workers’ families.

He also instructed the authorities concerned to ensure the presence of doctors and an adequate supply of medicines at Mongla Bandar Hospital and associated clinics, so that proper medical services can be provided to general workers.

Speaking on the occasion, Port Chairman Rear Admiral Shaheen Rahman said that workers have played a vital role in the development of Mongla Port.
“If the workers are well, the port will prosper,” he said, adding that the Mongla Port Authority will always stand by the workers in any need.

He further stated that all logical demands of the workers would be implemented through mutual discussion and urged everyone to work together to develop Mongla Port into a regional port.

Among those present at the meeting were Syed Zahid Hossain, President of the Port Berth and Ship Operators Association; Md. Zulfikar Ali, Secretary of the association; labor representatives Md. Alauddin and Ali Hossain; along with senior officials of the Mongla Port Authority.