Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali said the role of bureaucrats is very crucial to graduate the state into the middle income category from the group of Least Developed Counties (LDCs) by 2021.
“Bangladesh civil servants have to keep abreast of the latest knowledge and prepare and update themselves for the evolving challenges to fully support the government’s development policies to graduate it from LDC to a Middle Income Country (MIC) by 2021 and to a developed country by 2041” he said.
The envoy was addressing the inaugural ceremony of a training course for 35 senior level civil servants of Bangladesh at the prestigious ‘Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI)’ in Hyderabad on Sunday, said a press release of Bangladesh High Commission to India issued here on Tuesday.
Ali said the job of civil servants in the ever growing world has become much more challenging than before and it is more relevant for the civil servants of countries like Bangladesh which is emerging as one of the fastest growing economies in the world.
The envoy also briefed the participants about the current and future trajectory of India-Bangladesh relationship, added the press release.
Under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, the Indo-Bangla relations is currently at its best, he said, adding the relations cover virtually every aspect of “human endeavour”.
The programme titled “Capacity Building Programme on Good Governance and Effective Public Administration” has been implemented in collaboration with Bangladesh government and Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) since 2016.
The ASCI, so far, has successfully implemented 16 batches comprising about 500 senior level officers from Public Administration Ministry of Bangladesh under this collaboration.
The high commissioner also called on Telangana state governor ESL Narasimhan, University of Hyderabad Vice Chancellor Prof Appa Rao Podile and Deccan Chronicle Editor in Chief AT Jayanti during his visit to Hyderabad.
He shared various development priorities and activities of Bangladesh and explored new areas of cooperation.
