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A person with innate
qualities, intellect, and vision, depth of
knowledge, understanding of religion, academic work,
poetic muse and a mission to help the suffering
humanity can be nobody else but the man of principles
and high thinking Akhter
Hameed Khan.
The profile of this person
makes a writer have doubts because doing justice to the
man of his calibre is something that one cannot be sure
of.
He was a person, who was
always looked upon as a mentor and a social worker, who
was sure of his capabilities to benefit his countrymen.
From all that I could gather he had a personality which
was so versatile and complete that in the words of
Shakespeare, "that nature might stand up and say to the
entire world: This was a man." Akhter Hameed Khan was a
complete human being -his motto was simple living and
high thinking. The reality is that he was a perfect
human being.
After learning a great deal
of administration from the British, he left them because
he didn't feel the spirit to alleviate the sufferings of
impoverished humanity. Thus, to understand the problems
of the poor, Akhter Hameed Khan decided to quit the
prestigious civil service. His faith in the teachings of
Buddha made him a pacifist, a man of peace.
In 1972, he was the Vice-chairman
of a Committee formulated by IRDP in Peshawar and was
responsible for the establishment of a Markaz. But he
was always so much worried about the support from government
that he left the project in the middle and that too half-heartedly.
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Lecture By Professor Rehman Sobhan |
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“DEMOCRATIZING DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH ASIA: RESPONDING
TO THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBALIZATION”
Professor Rehman Sobhan has served as a Professor of
Economics, Dhaka University, Member, Bangladesh Planning
Commission (with a rank of a State Minister), Director
General, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS),
Visiting Fellow, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, a Member
of the Advisory Council of the President of Bangladesh
(with a rank of a Cabinet Minister), Executive Director,
South Asia Centre for Policy Studies and Visiting Fellow,
Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University. He
is currently Chairman, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD),
Dhaka, Bangladesh and Senior Research Fellow, Ash Institute,
Harvard University. Amongst many other professional positions,
he is the Chairman Board of Grameen Bank.
He has several books to his credit which include Basic
Democracies, Works Programme and Rural Development in
East Pakistan (1968), From Aid Dependence to Self-Reliance:
Development Options for Bangladesh (1990), Debt Default
and the Crisis of State Sponsored Entrepreneurship in
Bangladesh (1991), Public Allocative Strategies, Rural
Development and Poverty Alleviation : A Global Perspective
(1991), Planning and Public Action for Asian Women (1992),
Bangladesh : Problems of Governance (1993), Aid Dependence
and Donor Policy: The Case of Tanzania (1996), Growth
or Stagnation? A Review of Bangladesh's Development (1996),
Trends in the Post-Flood Economy: Review of Bangladesh's
Development (2000), etc. He also has over hundred monographs
and articles published in professional journals.
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Addressed
by Keynote Speaker Shoaib Sultan Khan
Having accepted
the invitation to deliver the lecture, I started wondering how
am I going to do justice to a person of the stature of Akhter
Hameed Khan. I had always looked upon him as my mentor and teacher.
My relationship with him was truly of a sage and a disciple.
His
presence was overpowering and commanding a respect not out of
fear but intellectual superiority of a level which belies any
description. I feel like a pygmy trying to describe a giant. My
relationship with Akhter Hameed Khan was more like Boswell’s
with Dr. Johnson.
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Working of an
Appropriate Organization
“An important platform is created
and strengthened by the members to take on their local issues
and concerns, following the basic philosophy of participatory
development, advocating a culture of self-help.”
Principles of Credit for Micro- Enterprises
“Monetary strength inevitably
spells out a lot more than is commonly voiced! It is essentially
a requirement that the rural poor, once they are organized,
generate their own capital and channelize the micro credit
provided into sustainable investments,”
NGO’s Ladder to Development
“In
Pakistan development will not come from the top. It will come
from the bottom, and it shall happen in pockets one island
formed here one there and one island will be made by you”
Health Programmes for Villages without Clinics
“My
conclusion is that our people are willing to be mobilized and it
is in their interest. If they do not do the development work,
they suffer. To save both their health and their property, they
have to make only a small investment, which they do willingly”
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Glimpses
of Poetry by Dr. Akhter Hameed Khan
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"My conclusion is that our people are willing to be mobilized
and it is in their interest. If they do not do the development work,
they suffer. To save both their health and their property, they
have to make only a small investment, which they do willingly.”
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