UNB, Dhaka :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said her government has given top priority to education to build an educated nation as no country could achieve desired development without education.
“It’s not possible to be built a hunger- and poverty-free nation without establishing an educated nation,” she said.
The Prime Minister was speaking after receiving the results of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations from Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid at her official residence Ganobhaban. The examinations were held under
the country’s 10 education boards. Greeting the students for their success in the examinations, Sheikh Hasina said the main goal of her government is to uplift the country’ s socioeconomic condition through ensuring the basic rights of people.
She also said, her government wants to ensure a better living place for the new generation.
Referring to destructive activities of the BNP-led alliance for a couple of months at the end of 2013, the Prime Minister said it was not so easy to reach textbooks and educational materials to the students as well as taking their examinations at that time.
Sheikh Hasina said, the government has restored discipline in the education sector as now not a single day of the students is wasted for publishing their results.
Talking about the importance of the vocational education, Hasina said her government wants to see the students to get self-employed. In this regard, she mentioned, the students who passed from vocational institutes would be able to get jobs both at home and abroad on their own.
The Prime Minister also talked to public representatives, students and teachers at the Deputy Commissioner’s office in Manikganj through a video conferencing from her official residence Ganobhaban. Four students-Asif Iftekhar Ifti, Pritu Parna Sarker, M Zaman and M Alamgir Hossain-talked to the Prime Minister.
Sheikh Hasina also congratulated all concerned, including the officials of the Ministry of Education, education boards and teachers of the educational institutions for their all-out cooperation in completing and publishing the results of the examinations in time.
