Contributions To Social Development
He had also organized the All Bengal Industrial, Agriculture Technology fairs in 1924, 36, and 1951 respectively, which were participated in by industrialists all over India. These were the first such industrial fairs of their kind in the country. he worked actively to promote industrialization in agriculture to help improve the lives of people.
He also organized the haphazard initiative of his father to promote cottage industry into a systematic organization that supplied over 20,000 handlooms to weavers across Faridpur to help create self-employment.
He legalised the practice of Homeopathy to make medication legally available at affordable prizes for all.
He helped to get government accreditation for most of the schools that had been originally made bu his father. He also gave away a lot of scholarships to students across Pakistan.
He helped to legalise the practice of sacrificing oxen for the purpose of Qurbani within limits of Faridpur municipal area. He helped to protect the lives and properties of the Hindu population in Faridpur and the Muslim population in calcutta during the 1947 riots.
He also helped create dialogue between farmers and zamindars and stabilization of land tax rates to make life easier for both parties through his Farmers Association Conference of 1938 thereby paving the way for a more equitable and pleasanter relationship between the farmers and the land owners across the country.
He also arranged for the feeding of over 1 million people during several famines and distributed several million pieces of clothing between the late 1930s and 1960s. He also established a sugar mill in Faridpur for employment generation. All of these he did with his own personal funds.
He established the power supply network of Faridpur and the water works with his own funds and also paid for extensive repair and maintenance of railway tracks between Faridpur and Calcutta.
He also helped Dr Ibrahim to obtain the sanction of the piece of land in Shahbag where the current BIRDEM hospital stands.
He was also one of the founding board members of the Jahangirnagar University and had worked extensively to have the Government grant the land for the making of the university. He is known to have purchased and donated some land to this cause as well.
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