TANGAIL, Jan 1, 2021 (BSS) – Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque today said sports can keep children away from going astray.
“Sports are a means of pure pleasure and healthy entertainment. Healthy thinking consciousness of one develops through sports,” he said at the inaugural session of a Hadudu competition on the Mushuddi Afaz Uddin High School ground in Dhanbari upazila of the district.
Razzaque said many children of the country get involved in drug abuse, militancy and other misdeeds.
“If these children are involved in healthy entertainment like sports, they will get pure joy and their minds will be cheerful. They will be able to focus on good deeds. And children will not go astray,” he said.
President of the competition organising committee Sohrab Ali Master and its general secretary Shahadat Hossain Sarkar, among others, were present on the occasion, a ministry press release said.