Call to more people’s participation in uplift activities

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BSS, Rajshahi :
Speakers at a pre-iftar view-sharing meeting with journalists here Thursday said importance should be given on more peoples involvement in the government’s success achievement and development thinking.
They viewed the journalists have a vital role towards supplementing the government’s efforts to reach the success messages to the grassroots’ people properly as they are the key-players in this regard.
District Information Office (DIO) organized the meeting as part of its special campaign programme highlighting the field level peoples-participatory advocacy meeting, discussion, colourful rally, musical and film shows, women gathering and courtyard meeting.
Deputy Director of DIO Md Shamsuzzaman and Senior Information Officer of Press Information Department Abdul Munim addressed the discussion as focal persons saying the Bangladesh has attained remarkable success in various development indicators.
The government has achieved a number of successes in the power sector during the past six years. Power generation capacity more than doubled from 4,942 MW in 2009 to 11,265 MW currently, with around 68% of the population having access to electricity.
Editor of Daily Sonar Desh Akbarul Hassan Millat, Editor of Daily Sunshine Tasikul Alam Bakul and President of Rajshahi Press Club Anwarul Alam Fatik also spoke.
The discussants mentioned that the country at present is progressing fast in every sector, especially in improving foreign policy, ICT, food production, power generation and distribution, education, women empowerment, foreign remittance earning, GDP and per capita income. Now the country has become a rice-exporting instead of importing one.
In particular, the present government has attained remarkable success in agriculture sector as it has attached highest priority to the sector. There was no need of importing rice in last four to five years as we had adequate production to feed the nation.
Akbarul Hassan Millat said: “We’ve already stepped into that stairs as Bangladesh has been declared a lower middle-income country from the lower-income nation”. “Bangladesh doesn’t want to stay at the lower ladder… it wants to climb to the peak and we will do whatever necessary for that.”
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