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Sheikh Hasina said energy is very much necessary for overall development of the country. “We’re providing electricity to 93 percent people and we have achieved capability of producing 22,000 MW power … we’re constructing fertiliser factories, while works of various development projects are going on,” she said.
The Leader of the House said the government has set a target to take the GDP growth to double digit by 2024. “So energy is a must to achieve the goal,” she said.
The prime minister said Awami League could not come to power in 2001 as her government had opposed the export of gas.
“We suggested export of gas by keeping its reserve for 50 years after meeting the demand of gas of the people as we do politics for the country and welfare of the people,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina said the government has taken steps to introduce pre-paid meter for the use of gas and electricity to check its misuse.
The prime minister once again apparently ruled out the possibility to extend the age limit for entering the government jobs placing a number of logics in support of keeping this age limit unchanged.
The premier said a student can complete his or her post-graduate degree at the age of 23 years and the success rate of the BCS applicants aged 23-25 years higher than that of examinees aged 25-27 year and much higher than that of BCS candidates aged above 29 year.
In this connection, she mentioned the statistics of the 35th, 36th and 37th BCS examinations.
“If the age limit is extended to 35 years, what will be situation? There is a certain age to do work. What will be the consequence? If anyone joins job at the age 35, he or she will have to be imparted training till 37 years,” she added.
Elaborating Bangladesh’s tremendous development in various sectors including agriculture, education, health, the prime minister said the country has started its journey towards continental shelf of uplift in the last one decade.
“We attained 8.1 percent GDP growth in the last fiscal and set a goal of achieving 8.2 percent GDP in the current fiscal and we’re advancing with this plan,” she said.
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