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PM-ECNEC-SPEECH 2 LAST DHAKA
The prime minister said her government has been able to bring down the
poverty rate to 21 percent. “We’ve to cut the rate further and we’ve to keep
it in mind,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina laid stress on increasing the GDP growth rate and said that
“I know it is difficult to raise the rate further when it goes up at a
certain level. But I believe that we can do it.”
She added: “We’re working together and we will build a teamwork so that we
could reach to our desired goal … we will build a hunger-and-poverty-free
‘Sonar Bangla’ as dreamt by Bangabandhu Insha Allah.”
The prime minister said Bangladesh has graduated to a developing country
thanks to various pragmatic steps of her government. “We’ve been able to
raise GDP to 7:86 percent and we’ve to retain this achievement,” she said.
The premier said Bangladesh will have to advance further, asking all
concerned to undertake and implement the projects keeping it in mind.
She said Bangladesh is now a developing country and on the way to become a
middle income country. “We’ll want to build it as a developed and prosperous
country by 2041 by retaining this success … We’ve to take forward our all
activities keeping this in mind.”
The prime minister sought cooperation of all to build Bangladesh as a
developed and prosperous country being imbued with the spirit of the
liberation war.
“We got responsibility from the people for running the country for another
five years. So I seek support of all so that we could establish Bangladesh as
a developed and prosperous country in the spirit of the liberation war by
completing our work,” she said.
Expressing heartfelt gratitude to the countrymen for reelecting her
government through a huge mandate, Sheikh Hasina said she reorganised the
cabinet freshly so that her government could achieve its goal.
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