The two-week long Capstone Course 2017-2, the highest training platform for leaders of all important sectors in Bangladesh, was concluded on the second instant at National Defense College (NDC), Mirpur Cantonment.
The ninth course has generated much interest among all the sectors of the national policy makers, an ISPR release said.
Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, MP, distributed certificates among the fellows as chief guest. The minister congratulated all fellows for their successful completion of the course.
In his speech Kamal urged the fellows to contribute in upholding constitutional responsibility in order to attain security and development of Bangladesh.
Earlier, on his arrival at NDC, the minister was received by Commandant NDC, Lieutenant General Chowdhury Hasan Sarwardy. Later the Commandant, NDC delivered his welcome speech.
In his address, the commandant paid his deepest tribute to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, four national leaders and martyrs of War of Liberation.
A total of 30 fellows including six parliamentarians, two senior military officers (Major General and equivalent), four Bureaucrats and technocrats (Additional Secretaries), two eminent educationalists, one lawyer, one senior doctor at policy planning level, one senior police officer, one senior representative from bank and financial institutions, one senior journalists, nine business leaders, CEOs and industrialists, and two honorary consul general took part in the course.
Among others, high level military and civil officers, faculty members of the college and prominent personalities were present on the occasion.
