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The prime minister said her government in 2014-15 introduced the APA for ensuring transparency and accountability in the government organisations.
Referring to the military rules after the assassination of Bangabandhu in 1975, Sheikh Hasina said the administration does not have such transparency and accountability when the military dictators remain in state power.
“Due to their dictatorial attitude, all is good what they do and others are bad and the people suffer from its bad results and they remain neglected. However, the dictators and their associates enjoy its benefits,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina said the aim of her government is to free the people from neglect and serve them. “That’s why we’ve introduced the APA to bring institutional efficiency and the dynamism to work as well as to make government works result-oriented,” she said.
Pointing out that the people are the owner of the government property, she said: “Our aim is also to utilise the property properly and reach the services to the people’s doorsteps.”
“The aim of our development is the grassroots which the Father of the Nation also did. Bangabandhu in the constitution incorporated every basic right like education, healthcare services, infrastructural development,” she said.
The premier also said the Father of the Nation also decentralised the power to reach government services to the people’s doorsteps.
Sheikh Hasina said the government had drawn up massive programmes to celebrate Mujib Borsho marking Bangabandhu’s birth centenary. “But we could not celebrate it in the way we wanted due to the COVID-19 outbreak,” she said.
The prime minister said her party has taken programme to plant one crore trees across the country alongside the government’s tree plantation campaign on the occasion of the Mujib Borsho.
“We’ve to make arrangements so that a single person doesn’t remain landless or homeless … we’ll be able to reach electricity to every house by this year Insha Allah,” she said.
Senior secretaries and secretaries to the ministries and divisions signed the APA on behalf of their respective agencies at the function in the conference room of the Public Administration Ministry.
The Power Division was recognised with the crest and certificate as the best performer in the implementation of APA in 2019-2020 fiscal year, while the Agriculture Ministry and the Energy and Mineral Resources Division were adjudged as the second best performer and third best performer respectively.
Besides, seven other ministries and divisions received certificates as recognition to their outstanding performance in the execution of the APA.
The ministries and divisions are Water Resources Ministry, ICT Division, Information Ministry, Rural Development and
Cooperatives Division, Fisheries and Livestock Ministry, Finance Division and Economic Relations Division.
Senior Secretary of Internal Resources Division Abu Hena Md. Rahmatul Muneem received the integrity award for exercising integrity as the senior secretary of Energy and Mineral Resources Division during the 2019-20 fiscal year.
The Public Administration Ministry was recognised as the best in implementing the national integrity strategy successfully, while the Industries Ministry and the Labour and Employment Ministry as the second best and the Railway Ministry as the third best in the 2018-19 fiscal year.
Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque, on behalf of the prime minister, handed over crests and certificates to the secretaries concerned for outstanding performances of their ministries and divisions in implementing APAs.
State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain also spoke at the function conducted by Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam.
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