Get proper science education
PM asks younger generation
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon the younger generation to pursue proper education in science and technology to make advancement at a pace with the world community.
“To develop the country, we have to give proper education to our people, especially our children. This is our main objective and the government is making all-out efforts to this end”, she said at a function at Gono Bhaban.
The programme was organised to distribute prizes among the winners of the painting and essay-writing competitions for the children and teenagers held this March, marking the 91st birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The prime minister gave away prizes and certificates among the winners while Prof AF Salahuddin Ahmed, president of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Trust, presided over the event.
Hasina said, “We want to build the nation in a way that will ensure a beautiful, developed, and meaningful life for the children”.
Unless the people of Bangladesh are made free from poverty and illiteracy, it will never be possible to build the country as "Sonar Bangla" as dreamt by Bangabandhu, she said.
Citing the government's steps to ensure computer facilities and internet services at union level, the prime minister said the government has already taken steps to reach laptops to the masses as part of its initiatives to build "digital Bangladesh" by 2021.
About Bangabandhu Memorial Trust, Hasina said the house at Dhanmondi-32 was given to the Trust to continue its activities as the house bears the history of movements that led to the war of liberation and the independence of the country.
The Trust provides stipends to young students and holds different competitions so that the young generation can learn the real history of the war of liberation since the history has been distorted over the years, she said.
“Through the competitions, the children will be able to learn and spread the spirit of liberation. Such competitions will help the future generation to go ahead and enable themselves to make their mark globally”.
Speaking on the occasion, Dhaka University Vice Chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique urged the juvenile to have lesson from the honesty, patriotism, and moral principles of the father of the nation.
“Bangabandhu not only allowed us to dream, but also did everything to materialise those…[he] spent his every moment to lead the nation to gain independence”, he said.
Prof AF Salahuddin Ahmed said Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was a “poet of patriotism and lover of humanity".
"All of us will have to respect the ideology of Bangabandhu, if we want to show our respect to him”, he said.
At the function, Bangabandhu Memorial Trust member secretary Sheikh Hafizur Rahman delivered the welcome address and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Museum curator Syed Siddiqur Rahman gave the vote of thanks.
Poet Rabiul Hussain and advocate Tarana Halim MP, among others, spoke on the occasion.
Noted singer Bulbul Mohalanabish conducted the function.
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