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BGB to celebrate 7th founding anniversary tomorrow
DHAKA, Dec 19, 2017 (BSS) – The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) will
celebrate its seventh founding anniversary tomorrow amid different programmes
at Pilkhana headquarters as well as its all battalions across the country.
The programmes include hoisting of BGB’s regimental flags at 8am atop BGB
headquarters and battalions, parade at the Pilkhana headquarters.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to take salute at 10 am tomorrow
as the chief guest, according to an official release here today.
BGB Director General Major General Abul Hossain will place floral wreaths
at ‘Simanto Gourav’ showing respect to the martyrs of freedom fighters at
around 8.15am. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will distribute medal among the
BGB officials and members acknowledging their contribution in the services.
Ministers, Advisors, senior military and civil officials and members of
the diplomatic corps will attend the parade.
A 15-member representative led by Indian Border Security Force (BSF)
Director General Krishan Kumar Sharma and a six-member representative led by
Police Commander of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police Brigadier General Myint Toe
will attend the parade.
President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today issued
separate statement on the occasion greeting the BGB members. They hope that
the BGB would discharge their duties with honesty and sincerity to keep the
border areas safe and uphold the country`s image.
In his message, President Abdul Hamid urged the BGB members to discharge
their duties with utmost sincerity for protecting the country`s bordering
areas by preventing smuggling, woman and child trafficking, combating
terrorism, maintaining discipline and contributing to rescue operation during
natural calamities.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in her message, said that her government has
taken all necessary measures to make the BGB a modern force. She said the
present government has enacted the Border Guard Bangladesh Act-2010 and
approved new organizational framework and manpower for making it an efficient
force.
About the mutiny that took place at Pilkhana on February 25-26 in 2009, the
Prime Minister said it was a black chapter in the 220 years’ history of the
force and all the convicted were brought under book.
Recently, the High Court has awarded death sentence to 139, life
imprisonment to some 185 and 196 were given jail in different terms, the
release added.
“We already have started to reform the force as a time be-fitting border
guard force through passing the ‘Border Guard Bangladesh Act-2010’, the Prime
Minister stated in her message, adding that BGB is working under its four
regions, four sectors and 15 battalions with about 22 thousand members
countrywide.”
The PM said, ‘Vision-2041’ has been formulated to make the BGB as the
three-dimensional modern force in future and decision to raise its workforce
by more 15,000 has already been approved.
She recalled the contribution of this force saying the border forces
fought for the country responding to the call of Father of the Nation
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1971 and some 817 members of the border
guards made their supreme sacrifices in the War of Liberation.
The force, she said, is playing a better role than in the past in any
emergency period and natural disaster and nation building activities and in
aid of civil administration.
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