UNB, Dhaka :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday iterated her government’s firm commitment to building a developed, prosperous and knowledge-driven society in pursuit of ‘Vision-2041’ saying that women and girls in Bangladesh will remain in the forefront of national endeavour to this end.
In this regard, the Prime Minister urged the United Nations and the international community to work together with Bangladesh on girls’ and women’s education.
The PM’s voiced her commitment and made the appeal while inaugurating an International Conference on ‘Girls’ and women’s literacy and education: Foundations for sustainable development’ marking the International Literacy Day 2014 at Bangabandhu International Conference Center in the city.
The programme was organized by the Government of Bangladesh in partnership with UNESCO, in support of the UN Secretary General’s Global Education First Initiative (GEFI).
Speaking on the occasion, Hasina said the government believes that in the
post-2015 development context, GEFI’s focus on promoting inclusive education, improving quality of education and grooming every child can act as one of the core foundations of sustainable development and a key driving force in universalizing girls’ and women’s literacy and education. She also expressed her belief that only the right kind of education can make a girl self-reliant economically, socially and emotionally.
In this connection, the Prime Minister said that it is the education that gives girls strength to stand against any wrongdoing and discrimination.
She mentioned that in line with GEFI’s third pillar, one of the main objectives of her government’s education planning is to “groom the children into becoming truly global citizens, standing tall with their Bangalee identity.”
The government wants the boys and girls to be nurtured in the light of their own culture and tradition, she said, hoping that the children would forge ahead on their own merits competing with their peers from all over the world.
Hasina said that, in 1996, her government gave highest priority to education, both in terms of policy and funding as well as introduced non-formal education in every district and spearheaded a ‘Total Literacy Movement’.
She said, the government was able to increase the literacy rate in only five years to 65 percent. “But the successive government under the leadership of BNP failed to sustain the achievements bringing the literacy rate down to 44 percent.”
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday iterated her government’s firm commitment to building a developed, prosperous and knowledge-driven society in pursuit of ‘Vision-2041’ saying that women and girls in Bangladesh will remain in the forefront of national endeavour to this end.
In this regard, the Prime Minister urged the United Nations and the international community to work together with Bangladesh on girls’ and women’s education.
The PM’s voiced her commitment and made the appeal while inaugurating an International Conference on ‘Girls’ and women’s literacy and education: Foundations for sustainable development’ marking the International Literacy Day 2014 at Bangabandhu International Conference Center in the city.
The programme was organized by the Government of Bangladesh in partnership with UNESCO, in support of the UN Secretary General’s Global Education First Initiative (GEFI).
Speaking on the occasion, Hasina said the government believes that in the
post-2015 development context, GEFI’s focus on promoting inclusive education, improving quality of education and grooming every child can act as one of the core foundations of sustainable development and a key driving force in universalizing girls’ and women’s literacy and education. She also expressed her belief that only the right kind of education can make a girl self-reliant economically, socially and emotionally.
In this connection, the Prime Minister said that it is the education that gives girls strength to stand against any wrongdoing and discrimination.
She mentioned that in line with GEFI’s third pillar, one of the main objectives of her government’s education planning is to “groom the children into becoming truly global citizens, standing tall with their Bangalee identity.”
The government wants the boys and girls to be nurtured in the light of their own culture and tradition, she said, hoping that the children would forge ahead on their own merits competing with their peers from all over the world.
Hasina said that, in 1996, her government gave highest priority to education, both in terms of policy and funding as well as introduced non-formal education in every district and spearheaded a ‘Total Literacy Movement’.
She said, the government was able to increase the literacy rate in only five years to 65 percent. “But the successive government under the leadership of BNP failed to sustain the achievements bringing the literacy rate down to 44 percent.”
