Govt’s main priority to ensure country’s overall development: PM

GBNews24 Desk//

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said her government has been working in planned way to ensure its main priority for overall development of the country.

“My party, Awami League, has prioritised the overall development of the country especially rural areas as desired uplift is impossible leaving the grassroots people behind,” she said, reports BSS.

The premier made this remark while receiving “Azizul Haque Polli Unnayan Padak-2021 (Azizul Haque Rural Development Award-2021)” at a ceremony at her official residence Ganabhaban here.

Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) has honoured the prime minister with this prestigious award in recognition of her contribution to rural development.

CIRDAP Director General Dr. Cherdsak Virapat handed over the award to the prime minister.

Sheikh Hasina said it is the belief of her government that the country would achieve desired development and prosperity, once rural development is ensured.

She said Awami League had drawn up necessary plan even when it was outside of the state power and that is why, after coming to power, it has been able to take the country ahead through working as per its plan.

About “Amar Bari, Amar Khamar” (My Home, My Farm) project, the head of the government said that her brain child project helped in creating employment opportunities for the unemployed poor people and thereby ensured their socio-economic development.

To this end, she mentioned the digital centre that started from a remote area named Char Kukri Mukri.

She added the government is now implementing the programme “My Home, My Farm” so that the people living in rural areas could stand on their own feet and create employment opportunities for others.

Sheikh Hasina also referred to contribution of the community clinics to providing healthcare facilities to the doorsteps of the rural people.