Muhamad Yasin

Yasin established Deedar Comprehensive Village Cooperative Society in 1960 in Comilla District.^[1] Yasin was a law enforcement officer who lost his job and imprisoned for protesting in the 1950s.^[1] 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.^[1]

Deedar Comprehensive Village Cooperative Society won the Independence Award in 1984.^[1] It won the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1988.^[1][2] It has won the National Agriculture Awards and the National Cooperative Award.^[1]

Yasin was awarded the Independence Award in 1990 for rural development.^[3]

Yasin died on 17 October 1999.^[1]