Kids, youth future on Bangladesh: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the country’s children and youth to prepare for leading the Bangladesh of future.

“We are getting old. You will have to come forward to take the mantle from our generation. You will make Bangabandhu’s dream of Golden Bengal a reality,” she told a gathering of children and young people on the occasion of the Independence Day.
The gathering was organised at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Tuesday. The Prime Minister hoisted the National Flag at the start of the gathering.

Forty-two pigeons were released by her into the sky to signify the Independence Day.

Sheikh Hasina said her government wanted to ensure the rights of every child in the country. “An appropiate national children policy has been formulated. The facilities for their education has been increased.”

“Free books were distributed at the beginning of the year and now almost all the children are going to school.”

She also mentioned providing aid to 116,000 students from the Education Assistance Trust Fund.

She said her government was also providing the disabled children training in different subjects, besides increasing education facilities for them.

Urging everyone to uphold the Constitution, the Prime Minister said, “We are a proud nation. We must uphold the Constitution handed down to us by the Father of the Nation [Sheikh Mujibur Rahman] .”

She also attended the parade and took salute at a spectacular march-past by the children from different educational institutions and organisations.