The National Youth Day will be observed today through various programmes across the country. This year’s the theme of the day is “Dakkha Jubo Gorche Desh, Bangabandhur Bangladesh” (Skilled youths are building the country, Bangabandhu’s Bangladesh).
On the eve of the day, President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued separate messages greeting the country’s youth society and wished all programmes of the day a success.
In a message, President M Abdul Hamid said “The larger part of the country’s population is youth aged between 18 and 35. The trend of numerical abundance of youth will continue till 2043.”
The youths should be built as human beings with moral values and the expertise of information technologies, education, culture and sports to utilize the demographic dividend, he added.
The President underscored the need for ensuring inclusive, peaceful, equitable and impermeable development for the youths to achieve the targets of transforming the country into a developed one by 2041 and United Nations (UN) declared Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. In her message, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the government is implementing comprehensive programmes across the country through the Department of Youth Development under the Ministry of Youth and Sports for creating opportunities of education, training and employment for the youths and building leadership quality, patriotism and responsibility by instilling spirit of the Liberation War among them.
Noting that the National Service programme was launched in 2009-10 for the youths, the premier said a total of 228,737 youths were given trainings at 128 upazilas under 37 districts across the country while 226,402 of them have already been employed.
