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Describing education as the main tool for building a poverty-free Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government was firmly committed to achieving the goal.
“It is not possible to eliminate poverty without development of education. So, we are working hard to achieve this goal”, she said, while unveiling the results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations 2012.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid handed over the results of the SSC and equivalent examinations to the PM at a simple ceremony at her official residence of Gono Bhaban.
Sheikh Hasina said her government had been working relentlessly to improve the quality of education alongside increasing literacy rate to build an illiteracy-free Bangladesh by 2014.
In this connection, she listed various steps of the government for the development of education in the country.
The measures, she said, include distribution of free textbooks among students up to the secondary level, providing scholarship to female students up to the higher secondary level, holding public examinations and announcing results within stipulated time and constitution of the Education Assistance Trust Fund for the poor and meritorious students.
The prime minister said her previous government had raised the country's literacy rate to 65 percent from 45-46 percent. “But the rate came down to 50 percent during the rule of the last BNP-Jamaat alliance government as they did nothing for the development of education”.
She congratulated the students who came out successful in this year's SSC exams and thanked the teachers for their efforts to help the students pass the exams.
Expressing satisfaction over results of this year's SSC exams, the prime minister said, “Our students are meritorious and they can do well even if they are given the minimum opportunities”.
The results are very satisfactory as the examinations were held in an atmosphere this year, which was free of unfair means, she said.
Sheikh Hasina urged the students to pay more attention to their studies for better results to establish Bangladesh as an enlightened and dignified nation in the world.
The government is working to build a hunger and poverty-free "Sonar Bangla" as dreamt by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman through making Bangladesh a technologically-advanced country with modern education, she said.
Earlier, the prime minister opened the results of Barisal Zila School, Barisal Girls' High School and Barisal Technical School and College through online.
Education Secretary Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury, PM's Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad, the chairmen of the 10 education boards and senior officials were present on the occasion.
Barisal city Mayor Shawkat Hossain Hiron, parliament member from Barisal-1 constituency Talukdar Md Yunus, Barisal Divisional Commissioner Abu Hena Md Rahmatullah Munim, and heads of Barisal Zila School, Barisal Girls' High School and Barisal Technical School and College talked to the PM through videoconferencing.
While talking to the people of Barisal through videoconferencing, the prime minister said her government had undertaken massive development programmes for the uplift of the southern region, including Barisal which was neglected for a long time.
“We have undertaken massive upgradation programmes for the development of southern region as we believe in a balanced development of all regions”.
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