City Desk :
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam, MP, said the present government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is pledged bound to transform the population into competent human resources. He termed the country’s population as wealth and said the educational institutions including universities have a vital role in supplementing the government’s endeavor to this effect as human resource development is very much important for bolstering the country’s economy. The state minister was inaugurating a two-day international conference titled “Population, Health, Environment and Sustainable Development: Issues and Challenges” at Senate Bhaban of Rajshahi University (RU) as the chief guest. RU’s Department of Population Science and Human Resource Development organized the conference participated by more than 100 teachers, scientists and researchers concerned from home and abroad. With RU Vice-chancellor Prof Mijanuddin in the chair, Pro-VC Prof Chowdhury Sarwar Jahan, Treasurer Prof Sayen Uddin and chairman of the department Prof Mustafizur Rahman also spoke.
State Minister Shahriar Alam said a long term planning is very vital for population, environmental and sustainable development of Bangladesh. To this end, research and large-scale discussion on these issues has become an urgent need.
Findings and information of the research could be the effective means of formulating need-based planning and implementation of those, he added. Shahriar Alam said accurate and updated statistics on all necessary issues has become indispensable for building a happy and prosperous Bangladesh. Utmost importance should be given to a proper collection of primary information from all the need-based fields for formulating an effective development planning.
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam, MP, said the present government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is pledged bound to transform the population into competent human resources. He termed the country’s population as wealth and said the educational institutions including universities have a vital role in supplementing the government’s endeavor to this effect as human resource development is very much important for bolstering the country’s economy. The state minister was inaugurating a two-day international conference titled “Population, Health, Environment and Sustainable Development: Issues and Challenges” at Senate Bhaban of Rajshahi University (RU) as the chief guest. RU’s Department of Population Science and Human Resource Development organized the conference participated by more than 100 teachers, scientists and researchers concerned from home and abroad. With RU Vice-chancellor Prof Mijanuddin in the chair, Pro-VC Prof Chowdhury Sarwar Jahan, Treasurer Prof Sayen Uddin and chairman of the department Prof Mustafizur Rahman also spoke.
State Minister Shahriar Alam said a long term planning is very vital for population, environmental and sustainable development of Bangladesh. To this end, research and large-scale discussion on these issues has become an urgent need.
Findings and information of the research could be the effective means of formulating need-based planning and implementation of those, he added. Shahriar Alam said accurate and updated statistics on all necessary issues has become indispensable for building a happy and prosperous Bangladesh. Utmost importance should be given to a proper collection of primary information from all the need-based fields for formulating an effective development planning.
