UNB, Dhaka :
Although Bangladesh has already met several targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), there are still areas that need greater attention including hunger-poverty reduction, employment generation and ensuring quality education at all levels.
This was revealed at the ‘Millennium Development Goals: Bangladesh Progress Report-2015’ published yesterday at a function held at a city hotel. General Economics Division (GED) of the Planning Commission organised the function.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith and Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali spoke at the programme held with Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in the chair. General Economics Division (GED) member of the Planning Commission Prof Dr Shamsul Alam made a power-point presentation on the salient features of the MDGs Progress Report 2015.
The report showed that the MDG targets that Bangladesh has achieved include reducing headcount poverty and poverty gap ratio, reducing the prevalence of underweight children, attaining gender parity at primary and secondary education, under-five mortality rate reduction, containing HIV infection with access to antiretroviral drugs, under-five children sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets, detection and TB cure rate under DOTS and others.
Besides, Bangladesh has made a remarkable progress in increasing enrolment at primary schools, lowering the infant mortality rate and maternal mortality ratio, improving immunisation coverage and reducing the incidence of communicable diseases.
The MDG progress report 2015 also said the areas in need of greater attention are increases in primary school completion and adult literacy rates, creation of decent wage employment for women, increase in the presence of skilled health professionals at delivery, increase in correct and comprehensive knowledge on HIV/AIDS, increase in forest coverage and coverage of ICT.
Although Bangladesh has already met several targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), there are still areas that need greater attention including hunger-poverty reduction, employment generation and ensuring quality education at all levels.
This was revealed at the ‘Millennium Development Goals: Bangladesh Progress Report-2015’ published yesterday at a function held at a city hotel. General Economics Division (GED) of the Planning Commission organised the function.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith and Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali spoke at the programme held with Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in the chair. General Economics Division (GED) member of the Planning Commission Prof Dr Shamsul Alam made a power-point presentation on the salient features of the MDGs Progress Report 2015.
The report showed that the MDG targets that Bangladesh has achieved include reducing headcount poverty and poverty gap ratio, reducing the prevalence of underweight children, attaining gender parity at primary and secondary education, under-five mortality rate reduction, containing HIV infection with access to antiretroviral drugs, under-five children sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets, detection and TB cure rate under DOTS and others.
Besides, Bangladesh has made a remarkable progress in increasing enrolment at primary schools, lowering the infant mortality rate and maternal mortality ratio, improving immunisation coverage and reducing the incidence of communicable diseases.
The MDG progress report 2015 also said the areas in need of greater attention are increases in primary school completion and adult literacy rates, creation of decent wage employment for women, increase in the presence of skilled health professionals at delivery, increase in correct and comprehensive knowledge on HIV/AIDS, increase in forest coverage and coverage of ICT.
