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No people to live sans food, home: PM
DHAKA, Oct 4, 2018 (BSS) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said that the
utmost goal of her government was to build a country where no people will
live without home, die without food and treatment and every person would have
the opportunity to have a decent life.
“We will celebrate the birth centenary of the Father of the Nation in 2020
and golden jubilee of our independence in 2021 when Bangladesh will be a
country free from hunger and poverty. In 2041 Bangladesh will be a developed
nation in South Asia and we are implementing our all plans with this goal,”
she said.
The prime minister said this while inaugurating the 4th Unnyana Mela
through a videoconferencing from her Gonobhaban residence. Jatiya Sangsad
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury and
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader were present.
“We want to make such a Bangladesh which will be self-reliant in food,
education, intellectuality and all other areas. The ‘Delta Plan-2100’ has
been prepared with this goal to take forward the country step by step making
the development sustainable,” Sheikh Hasina said.
The videoconferencing was connected with four upazilas of the country while
exhibited at 500 venues across the country including all districts,
upazilas headquarters and union digital centers.
Chief coordinator of the Prime Minister’s Office on SDG Affairs Abul Kalam
Azad spoke on the occasion and presented a video documentary on Bangladesh’s
socioeconomic development in last 10 years and while Principal Secretary
Nojibur Rahman conducted the function.
After the inauguration of the Unnayan Mela, the prime minister talked to
the officials, local public representatives, beneficiaries of Ekti Bari Ekti
Khamar project, persons of different professions, students of Amtali upazila
of Barguna district, Fakirhat of Bagerhat district, Lohagara upazial of
Narail district and Pirganj of Rangpur district and exchanged views on
development of their areas.
The government has been arranging Unnyan Mela for the last four years to
showcase the successes of the government in socioeconomic progress of the
country and let the people particularly youth folks know and find out income
generating occupations for themselves after completing education.
“The fair will inspire the youth to build their own future decently keeping
them free from militancy, terrorism and other vices. Then they will be able
to do something for themselves and the people of the country,” she said.
The three-day Unnayan Mela (Development Fair) is simultaneously being held
on Dhaka Trade Fair (DTF) ground and every district and upazila across the
country.
Sheikh Hasina said people of Bangladesh were deprived of having the
opportunity of changing their fate for 21 years after the killing of
Bangabandhu.
She said military dictators did nothing to take forward the country except
making their own fortune.
The Awami League government made the country self-reliant in food
production after coming to power in 1996, she said adding that literacy rate
and power generation were increased while communication system had been
developed across the country at that time which was the ‘golden era’ for
Bangladesh.
But the pace of development was disrupted as Awami League could not come to
power in 2001 elections, she said.
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