Thursday, November 25, 2010
Front PagePM receives doctorate degree
Leaves Russia for Belgium
BSS
St Petersburg Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday received an honorary doctorate degree from St Petersburg State University for her outstanding contribution to the international humanitarian development.
This gracious gesture of the prestigious university is a rare honour for Bangladesh and its 160 million people.
Hasina made the remarks while receiving the certificate of the honorary doctorate degree from Rector of the university Nikolai M Kropachev.
It would reinforce my determination to serve my country . Indeed, this is a day which I shall cherish very fondly forever, she said.
Reading out citation, the rector said, The university feels proud by conferring the prestigious honorary doctorate degree upon Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her outstanding contribution to the international humanitarian development.
Addressing the function, Hasina acclaimed the university authorities for teaching Bengali language in the university and assured her government support including increasing collaboration between Dhaka University and St Petersburg University in this respect.
Mentioning her government's aim to raise 12 million people out of poverty within the MDG time frame of 2015, Hasina said, I believe our biggest enemy is poverty and we need all our friends' close support to eliminate this scourge.
In this context, she referred her government policies for arrest poverty that include social safety net programmes, pension for the distressed and the widowed women, Ashrayan or homes for the homeless, One Home- One Farm for small land owners.
The prime minister said her present government has put utmost importance on education as it believes that only education could help eliminate the social menace.
Thus, we have made the highest budget allocation for education with an aim to achieve 100 percent primary school enrolment by 2011 and 100 percent literacy rate by 2014 while school attendance is encouraged through providing gradually free lunch to students and cash incentives to parents, she said.
Regarding gender equality, she said gender equality in education has now been achieved at the secondary level and the government plans to provide girls with free tuition till graduation level.
Describing terrorism as another enemy for development, she sought support of all to weed out terrorism and all forms of extremism from the soil of the country.
In the health sector, Hasina said, the government is on the way to complete construction of 18,000 community clinics, each one of which is to cover 6,000 people.
The PM said Bangladesh's success in reducing infant mortality by 50 percent was recognised through an MDG Award during the 65th UNGA.
She said her present government is working relentlessly to build a Digital Bangladesh and turn it into a mid-income country by 2021.
Giving details of her government plans in ICT sector, she said the internet services have been made free to schools, training colleges, local government institutions, while 4,500 post offices and recently 4,503 Union Information and Service Centres have been connected with internet.
Terming climate change and global warming as the biggest threat for the country, she said a meter rise in seawater would submerge a quarter of Bangladesh displacing over 20 million people.
We have, therefore, adopted 134 adaptation and mitigation plans of which dredging of rivers is a major one to hold floodwater and to reclaim agricultural land, the premier said.
Earlier, Hasina visited the Language Institute and Honorary Consulate of Bangladesh in St Petersburg.
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni, State Minister for Forest and Environment Hasan Mahmud, ambassador at large M Ziauddin, PM's Principal Secretary M Abdul Karim and Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad, among others, were present at the function.
PM LEAVES FOR FRANKFURT EN ROUTE TO BELGIUM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left here yesterday afternoon (local time) for Frankfurt en route to Brussels, Belgium ending her three-day tour to Russia.
Bangladesh Ambassador to Russia S M Saiful Hoque, other embassy officials and top officials of Russian foreign ministry saw the prime minister off at the airport.
The PM is expected to reach Brussels at 6:30 pm (local time) after a two-hour stopover in Frankfurt, Germany.
Front PagePM receives doctorate degree
Leaves Russia for Belgium
BSS
St Petersburg Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday received an honorary doctorate degree from St Petersburg State University for her outstanding contribution to the international humanitarian development.
This gracious gesture of the prestigious university is a rare honour for Bangladesh and its 160 million people.
Hasina made the remarks while receiving the certificate of the honorary doctorate degree from Rector of the university Nikolai M Kropachev.
It would reinforce my determination to serve my country . Indeed, this is a day which I shall cherish very fondly forever, she said.
Reading out citation, the rector said, The university feels proud by conferring the prestigious honorary doctorate degree upon Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her outstanding contribution to the international humanitarian development.
Addressing the function, Hasina acclaimed the university authorities for teaching Bengali language in the university and assured her government support including increasing collaboration between Dhaka University and St Petersburg University in this respect.
Mentioning her government's aim to raise 12 million people out of poverty within the MDG time frame of 2015, Hasina said, I believe our biggest enemy is poverty and we need all our friends' close support to eliminate this scourge.
In this context, she referred her government policies for arrest poverty that include social safety net programmes, pension for the distressed and the widowed women, Ashrayan or homes for the homeless, One Home- One Farm for small land owners.
The prime minister said her present government has put utmost importance on education as it believes that only education could help eliminate the social menace.
Thus, we have made the highest budget allocation for education with an aim to achieve 100 percent primary school enrolment by 2011 and 100 percent literacy rate by 2014 while school attendance is encouraged through providing gradually free lunch to students and cash incentives to parents, she said.
Regarding gender equality, she said gender equality in education has now been achieved at the secondary level and the government plans to provide girls with free tuition till graduation level.
Describing terrorism as another enemy for development, she sought support of all to weed out terrorism and all forms of extremism from the soil of the country.
In the health sector, Hasina said, the government is on the way to complete construction of 18,000 community clinics, each one of which is to cover 6,000 people.
The PM said Bangladesh's success in reducing infant mortality by 50 percent was recognised through an MDG Award during the 65th UNGA.
She said her present government is working relentlessly to build a Digital Bangladesh and turn it into a mid-income country by 2021.
Giving details of her government plans in ICT sector, she said the internet services have been made free to schools, training colleges, local government institutions, while 4,500 post offices and recently 4,503 Union Information and Service Centres have been connected with internet.
Terming climate change and global warming as the biggest threat for the country, she said a meter rise in seawater would submerge a quarter of Bangladesh displacing over 20 million people.
We have, therefore, adopted 134 adaptation and mitigation plans of which dredging of rivers is a major one to hold floodwater and to reclaim agricultural land, the premier said.
Earlier, Hasina visited the Language Institute and Honorary Consulate of Bangladesh in St Petersburg.
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni, State Minister for Forest and Environment Hasan Mahmud, ambassador at large M Ziauddin, PM's Principal Secretary M Abdul Karim and Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad, among others, were present at the function.
PM LEAVES FOR FRANKFURT EN ROUTE TO BELGIUM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left here yesterday afternoon (local time) for Frankfurt en route to Brussels, Belgium ending her three-day tour to Russia.
Bangladesh Ambassador to Russia S M Saiful Hoque, other embassy officials and top officials of Russian foreign ministry saw the prime minister off at the airport.
The PM is expected to reach Brussels at 6:30 pm (local time) after a two-hour stopover in Frankfurt, Germany.
