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GOVERNOR-SDG-RU (with picture)
BB Governor for collective efforts to achieve SDGs
RAJSHAHI, Dec 20, 2019 (BSS) – Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Fazle Kabir
said concerted efforts of all the academics, scientists and researchers
concerned is very crucial to supplement the government relentless efforts of
achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the time-frame.
“Reaching the messages of SDGs to grassroots people can be a vital means
of achieving those successfully by 2030,” he said while addressing the
closing session of an SDG related two-daylong workshop at Senate Building of
Rajshahi University (RU) here yesterday afternoon as chief guest. RU’s
statistics department hosted its seventh international conference on ‘Data
Science and SDGs: Challenges, Opportunities and Realities’.
The two-day conference was included two keynote presentations, five
plenary sessions, meeting with invited guest and presenting 18 contributory
papers.
Statistical inference, inference in stochastic processes, statistical
computing, biostatistics, reliability, survival analysis and industrial
statistics were the major focus areas of the conference.
Besides, a poster session was held in the conference with setting up 28
stalls showcasing its messages.
Chaired by RU Vice-chancellor (VC) Prof Abdus Sobhan, the function was
addressed by former BB Deputy Governor Dr Sohrab Uddin, RU Pro-VCs Prof
Ananda Kumar Shaha and Prof Chowdhury Zakaria as special guests.
Convener of the conference Prof Sayedur Rahman also spoke on the
occasion. Governor Fazle Kabir said the present government under the dynamic
leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has adopted diversified steps to
attain the goals and all the academics, researchers, district and upazila
level government officials and public representatives should discharge their
duties with utmost sincerity and honesty to supplement the government
efforts.
He also said SDGs are of essence to achieve a better and more
sustainable future for all, adding its key commitment is “no one will be left
behind”.
Mentioning that preparing of proper database is required to attain SDGs,
he said government, policy makers and officials can take proper plans and
implementation strategies to achieve SDGs within stipulated time as accurate
and reliable database are made.
The governor hoped that the outcomes of the conference will help the
government towards achieving all the 17 SDGs and 169 targets in a coherent
manner, he added.
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