Come forward for country's development
PM urges engineers, technologists, scientists
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged engineers, technologists and scientists to come forward for the development of the country and its people through scientific utilisation of limited resources.
“Technology-based development would take Bangladesh to the highest peak,” she said while inaugurating the newly constructed 12-storied building for Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet).
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid, Buet Vice Chancellor Prof SM Nazrul Islam and Pro-Vice Chancellor Prof M Habibur Rahman also spoke on the occasion.
Hasina underscored the need for creating more skilled manpower in the country's information technology (IT) sector to turn the huge population into human resources.
She said knowledge would be the main capital in the present century and there is no alternative to IT for economic development.
Hasina said unprecedented developments in the IT sector opened up a new era and her government is implementing various programmes to build up a “digital Bangladesh”.
Laying emphasis on grooming the young talents of the country as competitive human resources, she said Buet must play a pioneering role in this regard.
The government is pledge-bound to take any step required so that engineering education can flourish and develop through its time-befitting use, she said.
Hasina said innovations and application of new technologies are taking the human civilisation into a whole new level. “There is no scope for lagging behind.”
She congratulated Buet for making a new trend ready to be made available in the election process through the use of electronic voting machines in the casting and counting process of votes.
Hasina expressed hope that Buet engineers, architects and planners would focus on inventing technologies which are befitting and sustainable for the country.
She said technological development and innovation processes are the key to the country's economic uplift, meaning its overall development.
“So, it is essential to develop and innovate technologies to make Bangladesh's development dynamic in the 21st century,” she said.
Listing various programmes taken by the present government for the expansion and development of engineering and vocational education, she said her government provided computers to secondary schools across the country.
“The work on setting up a hi-tech park, IT village and biotechnology institute is going on. We have also taken a project to launch the country's first satellite named Bangabandhu Jogajog-1,” she said.
Later, Hasina inaugurated the newly built building named “Electrical and Computer Engineering Bhaban” and laid the foundation stone of “Kazi Conference Centre” on the Buet campus.
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