Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the top officials of the districts to go hard against all criminals irrespective of their political or social identity.
The premier made the directives in a video conference with the District Development Committee of northern Lalmonirhat and southern Borguna district on Monday afternoon.
"We want a peaceful situation to expedite the pace of development. Action should be taken against each and every criminal without seeing their face," she said adding that "We don't want recurrence of the criminal activities as we have seen before January 5, 2014 election."
The prime minister said the government wants quick development of every part of the country to slash poverty by 10 percent more during its current tenure.
"We want quick execution of the projects undertaken fulfilling the basic needs of the people and overall economic development of the country,' she said. In view of this we want cooperation of all, particularly the district level executives, she said.
During the videoconference from cabinet room of the secretariat the prime minister talked to the officials of the districts and concerned Divisional Commissioners, local public representatives and the officials of various departments.
Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyn conducted the conference arranged by the Cabinet Division after weekly cabinet meeting as part of the Prime Minister's plan to communicate with the grassroots officials and local body representatives to bring dynamism in the administrative and development activities.
The prime minister said, country's poverty rate declined by 24 percent during the 2009-2013 tenure of her government. In the current tenure the government envisaged declining of poverty rate by 10 percent more.
Sheikh Hasina said, her government wants to change of the fortune of every people and improve their living standard. So, the government wants proper execution of the social safety net programmes and other projects taken for overall development, she said.
In this regard she asked the officials to give special attention to the proper implementation of the multifaceted programme taken for fulfilling the basic needs of the people. At the same time, attention should be given to the programnmes taken for overall development including agriculture, SME, youth welfare and create job opportunities, she said.
The prime minister said the government wants to make every family independent through implementing the one house one homestead programme. Our decision is that no people of Bangladesh will remain without home. She asked district officials to make list of the homeless people and take arrangement to build home with the fund from Grihayan Programme.
Sheikh Hasina said, Bangladesh is now self-reliant economically to a large extent. The term 'monga' is not heard now in the country's northern parts where it was a common phenomenon during a particular period every year few years back.
