Terming Bangladeshi students talented and potential ones, Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury on Saturday urged the well-off section of society to come forward to groom them up as good and educated citizens.
“Our children are very talented and potentials. If they can be educated with specific goals, they’ll surely be good citizens,” she said.
Dr Shirin, also the Chairperson of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association’s (CPA) Executive Committee, was addressing the formal inauguration of Afazuddin Memorial School and College and Textbook Distribution Festival-2016 at Kaliakair upazila in Gazipur, said a handout.
“Students are the future of the country. So, the well-off people will have to supplement government efforts to build them as good and educated citizens,” she said.
Pointing at the students, the Speaker urged them to participate in nation-building activities alongside their academic activities.
Chaired by founder chairman of the college Jalil Uddin, the function awas addressed, among others, by Kaliakair municipality mayor Mujibur Rahman and principal of the college Delwar Hossain.