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Terming poverty as the main enemy of this region including Bangladesh, the prime minister called upon all to fight together against it.
“Our main enemy is poverty. So we’ve to fight poverty and free the people from it,” she said.
Mentioning that Bangladesh Awami League has been working for the wellbeing of the people, Sheikh Hasina said the government has adopted work plans to achieve its goal of eliminating poverty from the country.
“When we were in the opposition we also set the same target,” she said.
The prime minister said her government when first assumed office in 1996 had taken long, short and immediate work plans to achieve the goal.
“We enacted the fifth five-year plan and 10-year perspective plan and started their implementation to expedite the country’s development by alleviating poverty and disparity among the people,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina said after coming to power again in 2009, her government had framed the sixth five-year plan keeping consistency with the millennium development goals (MDGs).
“Later, we framed the seventh five-year plan and the 10-year perspective plan and we’re executing these plans … we’ve also taken preparations to enact the 8th five-year plan, while a draft has been prepared for 20-year perspective plan (2021-2041),” she said.
The premier added: “We’ve been working to build a developed and prosperous Bangladesh by freeing it from hunger and poverty.”
Sheikh Hasina also said the government is undertaking every development scheme and step to make the uplift sustainable and achieve the SDGs.
The prime minister said Bangladesh was once identified as a country of drought, flood and hunger.
“But now none can look down upon Bangladesh as a poor country We have emerged as a respectable nation in the world due to massive development in the last one decade,” she said.
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