DHAKA, Jan 16, 2018 (BSS) – Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday said Bangabandhu’s speech would inspire mass people for their social and economic emancipation for ages.
He came up with the remark while opening a mural of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) Bhaban’s ground floor at Motijheel here.
He added: “Bangabandhu’s historic March 7 speech is a source of our inspiration. It was the declaration of country’s Independence as well.”
Nahid mentioned that the March 7 speech was included in the “Memory of the World” International Register, a list of world’s important documentary heritage maintained by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
The minister also thanked and congratulated the NCTB authority for such initiative by paying due respect to Bangabandhu, the greatest Bengalee of the thousand years.
Secretary to the Education Ministry’s Secondary and Higher Secondary Division Muhammad Sohrab Hossain, NCTB chairman Prof Narayan Chandra Saha and NCTB Member (Textbook) Dr Mia Enamul Haque Siddique, NCTB artist-cum-designer Sudorshan Bachhar, among others, were president there.