Help implement budget: PM to engineers
Dhaka, June 12 (UNB) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that the present government is working hard to improve the lot of all people, not for any particular person.
She said this when a delegation of the newly-elected office-bearers of Bangabandhu Prokoushali Parishad called on her at the Prime Minister Office (PMO) here today (Tuesday). Bangabandhu Prokoushali Parishad president Habibur Rahman led the delegation.
Briefing reporters after the meeting, PM’s press secretary Abul Kalam Azad said that the Prime Minister has asked the engineers to work sincerely from their respective position to help implement the Tk 191,000 crore budget for the next fiscal (2012-13).
Hasina said that the engineers are involved in the execution of various government projects at the field level and their cooperation is essential to achieve the desired goal of development.
She also urged the engineers at the field level to highlight the present government’s successes in different fields to the people.
The Prime Minister listed various achievements of her government including the tremendous successes in the fields of agriculture, education, health, electricity, food security, social safety net, and women empowerment.
She mentioned that despite the global economic recession, her government maintained over six percent growth in the last couple of years.
Hasina said that her government put emphasis on research and spread of science and technology, and during its previous term enacted laws to set up 12 science and technology universities in the country.
She noted that the government so far created employment opportunity for 68 lakh people and recruited 4.5 lakh people in government jobs while with the expansion of social safety net programmes, country’s poverty has been reduced by 10 percent.
The Prime Minister alleged that over 24,000 Awami League leaders and workers were killed by the cadres of BNP-Jamaat alliance government. “But the present government did not take any revenge on them as Awami League never believes in revenge,” she said.
Regarding the present condition of the power sector, she said that the BNP-Jamaat government and the caretaker government did not produce a single megawatt of electricity during their tenures.
“We are working hard to produce electricity and in the last three and half years, the government has been able to include additional 3,500 MW in the national grid. But the demand is increasing day by day.”
Hasina mentioned that if the BNP-Jamaat and caretaker government had produced electricity during their tenures, the scenario would have been better than now.
Science and Technology Minister Yeafesh Osman, Principal Secretary Sheikh Md Wahid Uz Zaman, PMO Secretary Molla Waheeduzzman, Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) president Engr Nurul Huda and general secretary Engr Abdus Sabur were also present on the occasion.
She said this when a delegation of the newly-elected office-bearers of Bangabandhu Prokoushali Parishad called on her at the Prime Minister Office (PMO) here today (Tuesday). Bangabandhu Prokoushali Parishad president Habibur Rahman led the delegation.
Briefing reporters after the meeting, PM’s press secretary Abul Kalam Azad said that the Prime Minister has asked the engineers to work sincerely from their respective position to help implement the Tk 191,000 crore budget for the next fiscal (2012-13).
Hasina said that the engineers are involved in the execution of various government projects at the field level and their cooperation is essential to achieve the desired goal of development.
She also urged the engineers at the field level to highlight the present government’s successes in different fields to the people.
The Prime Minister listed various achievements of her government including the tremendous successes in the fields of agriculture, education, health, electricity, food security, social safety net, and women empowerment.
She mentioned that despite the global economic recession, her government maintained over six percent growth in the last couple of years.
Hasina said that her government put emphasis on research and spread of science and technology, and during its previous term enacted laws to set up 12 science and technology universities in the country.
She noted that the government so far created employment opportunity for 68 lakh people and recruited 4.5 lakh people in government jobs while with the expansion of social safety net programmes, country’s poverty has been reduced by 10 percent.
The Prime Minister alleged that over 24,000 Awami League leaders and workers were killed by the cadres of BNP-Jamaat alliance government. “But the present government did not take any revenge on them as Awami League never believes in revenge,” she said.
Regarding the present condition of the power sector, she said that the BNP-Jamaat government and the caretaker government did not produce a single megawatt of electricity during their tenures.
“We are working hard to produce electricity and in the last three and half years, the government has been able to include additional 3,500 MW in the national grid. But the demand is increasing day by day.”
Hasina mentioned that if the BNP-Jamaat and caretaker government had produced electricity during their tenures, the scenario would have been better than now.
Science and Technology Minister Yeafesh Osman, Principal Secretary Sheikh Md Wahid Uz Zaman, PMO Secretary Molla Waheeduzzman, Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) president Engr Nurul Huda and general secretary Engr Abdus Sabur were also present on the occasion.
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