Highlighting enormous aspects of expanding science education towards building digital Bangladesh State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam has called for giving highest importance to it in country’s advancement journey.
“This is the high time to build science-based skilled and knowledge-based human resources to take the nation forward as the demand of information and communication technologies are rapidly increasing,” he said while addressing the inaugural ceremony of a daylong golden jubilee festival of Seroil Government High School in the city as the chief guest yesterday.
With Vice-chancellor of Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology Professor Rafiqul Alam Beg in the chair, former Pro-VC of Rajshahi University Prof Chowdhury Sarwar Jahan, Mayor-in-Charge of Rajshahi Nizam-Ul Azim and Headmaster of the school Abdur Rashid also spoke.
The state minister, a former student of the school, has said the present government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is committed to building a prosperous Bangladesh through boosting production and generating employment.
He said Bangladesh has attained significant success in various development indicators. The country at present is progressing fast in every sector, especially improving foreign policy, ICT, food production, power generation and distribution, education, women empowerment, GDP and per capita income.
Shahriar Alam said the present students should be enriched with the nation-building ideals and education of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for furthermore progress of the country.
He said Bangabandhu had brought up his all family members with appropriate leadership characteristics and all of us should follow the ideals properly for sake of the country’s welfare.
Listing various education expansion programmes of the government, Shahriar Alam said the government is pledged bound to enrich the list of competent human resource.
He said the youth forces have already started building Digital Bangladesh through their learning and earning activities. Present government is extending all support towards them so that they could build themselves as ICT-based income-generators, reports BSS from Rajshahi.
