The National Primary Education Week 2014 will be observed from today in a befitting manner, under the auspices of the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate a number of programmes of the week at a function at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the city.
Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman will preside over the function, which will be attended teachers, students and educationists.
President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gave separate messages marking the day.
In his message, the president stressed the need for building a skilled and knowledgeable workforce for implementing the “Vision-2021,” as declared by the government aimed at turning Bangladesh into a tech-savvy country.
Hamid sought support from all to achieve the millennium development goals and Vision-2021, and wished the week’s programme a success.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in another message, said there was no alternative to building an educated and skilled workforce to expedite balanced development of the country, besides building an IT-dependent modern nation.
In doing so, she said, the government has given special emphasis on education for all.
The prime minister listed the government’s manifold development activities including development of school infrastructure, ensuring supply of safe drinking water, introduction of uniform education and stipends for disadvantaged children.
She added that the distribution of textbooks to primary school students on the first day of the year and introduction of e-book were among the development activities.
“I hope that the continuation of development in the education sector will help implement the ‘Vision-2021’, paving the way for building a poverty and hunger-free non-communal Bangladesh,” she said.
The premier also wished the week’s programme a success.
