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Mentioning that she is worried about the students community due to the coronavirus outbreak, the prime minister said it is hampering their study seriously.
“Not only Bangladesh, the economy of the entire world has been stalled due to the pandemic and the people of whole world are suffering for it,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina said the pace of the development works has been slowed down in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. “There is no doubt that obstruction has been made on the way we are advancing. But we’ve to cross this hurdle and work by accepting it,” she said.
“Disasters will come as Bangladesh is a disaster-prone country. But we’ve to advance by combating the calamities,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina said the government announced a set of stimulus package which is equivalent of over four percent country’s GDP. “No country declared such packages first before Bangladesh and we thank the finance ministry to this end,” she said.
“We’ve provided the incentive packages as well as cash money wherever it is necessary by opening our hand and as a result, the wheels of our economy remain operative,” she said.
The prime minister said they had announced Digital Bangladesh in 2008 in their election manifesto and the government is now completing their works by utilising information technology.
Sheikh Hasina expressed her firm belief that Bangladesh will move ahead further and will never look backward and urged all to work together to attain the goal.
“Our advancement will continue and we will not move backward…we will build a hunger-and-poverty-free Sonar Bangla as dreamt by Bangabandhu. To achieve the goal, I call upon all to work in unison,” she said.
Extending her sincere thanks to all who successfully executed the APA, the premier said they have done an excellent work amid the COVID-19 pandemic which will remain an example in the world.
“I thank those who got awards for the work and I want you to work in the same way to achieve more awards in the days to come,” she said.
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