UNB, Dhaka :Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged the country’s engineers to make sure that quake-tolerant infrastructures and buildings are built in the country following the building code.”Since Bangladesh is a quake-prone area, you (engineers) will have to give special attention so that quake-tolerant infrastructures and buildings are built in the future and everyone follows the building code,” she said.The Prime Minister was addressing the inaugural session of the International Conference on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for Sustainable Development at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the city. IDEB and CPSC, Manila jointly organised the three-day conference.Sheikh Hasina urged the engineers, including the diploma ones, to maintain the standard of their works since they are responsible for implementing development works at the field level as nearly 85 percent of development works are implemented through them, including roads, bridges, culverts, educational institutions, mills and factories and various infrastructure.”The responsibility of ensuring the quality of works lies at the field level. You’ll have to give special attention so that the proper standard of work is ensured,” she said.The Prime Minister also hoped that the diploma engineers would expedite the country’s development works through maintaining the qualitative standard of their works, ensuring the optimum utilization of resources through their thoughts, talents, skills, sincerity and honesty. “If the development works are not properly implemented, it is not only a national loss, but also may invite human disaster. South and South-Asian countries are highly natural disaster-prone ones. Recently, the devastating earthquake in Nepal caused huge human and property losses. I came to know that cracks have developed in a number of buildings in our country, too,” she added.
