Dhaka, Sept. 24 -- President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday urged all concerned to take effective measures to build a neutral, orderly, affordable and transparent migration system.

"Migration should be viewed as one of the important means of development and poverty reduction," he said.

The President made the remarks when a delegation of the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU), led by its Executive Director Dr Tasneem Siddiqui, paid a courtesy call on him at Bangabhaban.

During the meeting, the delegation proposed an initiative to declare a "Decade of Migration" to make more effective use of the contributions of migrants.

Tasneem, also a former teacher of the Department of Political Science at Dhaka Universit...