PM asks Chhatra League to eradicate illiteracy [ Tritiyo Matra News ]

PM asks Chhatra League to eradicate illiteracy

Local January 25, 2017

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday asked Bangladesh Chhatra League to offer education to illiterate people of their respective areas in a bid to eradicate illiteracy in the country.
‘I am giving you a task to find out whether any illiterate remains in your locality. You have to provide education to them as we want to eradicate illiteracy in the country,’ Hasina said at a reunion organised by Chhatra League at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka.
The student organisation backed by the ruling Awami League organised the reunion marking its 69th founding anniversary.
Hasina, also the AL president, said that Chhatra League should take a programme to ensure education at the doorstep of the illiterates.
‘Education is the best way as it would take everyone forward alongside the country and the nation,’ she said.
Hinting at the Bangladesh Nationalist Party top leaders, Hasina said that the country experienced a hard time after ‘uneducated’ people assumed office.
‘Zia only obtained the SSC degree while Khaleda Zia failed to pass SSC examinations. Why would they want students to be educated,’ she said, adding that the use of arms was rampant at every institution during their regimes.
She also called on the students to work for strengthening people’s support against extremism, terrorisms and abuse of drugs.
Her government would not allow extremism and take stream actions against the extremists, the prime minister said.
‘There will be no room for militancy and violence on the soil of the land. If anybody takes such path, they must face the music,’ she said, adding that such acts destroyed family.
Terming extremism a global problem, Hasina said that she became astonished observing some English medium students in that path.
She came down heavily on BNP founder Ziaur Rahman for rehabilitating war criminals.
‘He [Zia] started communal politics rehabilitating the war criminals and ensuring their voting rights,’ she said.
The prime minister said that her government had been trying the war criminals, who had committed crimes against humanity during the country’s War for Independence and those who had patronised war criminals and made name ministers would also be tried.
She alleged that all the subsequent governments had pushed the country backward after the assassination of the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975.
‘As we assumed office in 1996 after 21 years of the carnage, people got an opportunity to learn the real history,’ she said.
‘Had survived for 10 more years, the country would have been developed one much earlier,’ she said.
Listing her government’s development activities, Hasina said that her government would turn Bangladesh a middle income country by 2021 and a developed one by 2041.
AL advisory council member Tofail Ahmed, also the commerce minister, said that the Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had tried to make Bangladesh a prosperous country.
Mujib had worked for that after the independence of the country but failed as he was killed with his family members, Tofail said.
Now Mujib’s daughter prime minister Sheikh Hasina is working to make Bangladesh a developed country, he said.
AL general secretary Obaidul Quader called on the Chhatra League leaders and activists not to take part in any activity that would tarnished the image of the Awami League-led government.
He also called on the present leadership of the Chhatra League to accommodate the brilliant students in the organisation.
Chaired by Chhatra League president Saifur Rahman Sohag, its general secretary SM Zakir Hossain also spoke at the reunion.
Hundreds of Chhatra League leaders and activist from across the country took part in the programme.