BSS-07 Work with govt for local development: President

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Work with govt for local development: President

DHAKA, Dec 30, 2017 (BSS) – President M Abdul Hamid today urged social and
professional organisations to work together with the government to ensure
local development and bring a social reform in the country.

“A joint-effort is a must to do something good and perfectly…work for
local development wherever you stay”, he said while addressing a meeting
organised by Greater Mymensingh Samity at Mirpur here on the occasion of its
Ziafat (a special feast).

The President categorically said people can together do a lot of works,
which is quite impossible for one.

He also asked the affluent quarter of the society to come forward and
stand by helpless and underprivileged people for their welfare.

Highlighting the ongoing development works of the greater Mymensingh and
haor region, President Hamid said, “We do politics from different political
parties with differences of ideology and opinion, but we should forge unity
for development activities.”

Recalling the rich tradition and culture of Mymensingh region, he further
urged industrialists and rich people, irrespective of political party
affiliation, to come forward for the development of the region.

Mymensingh Division started its journey due to the keenness of Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina, the President said, adding: “Being an inhabitant of
Mymensingh, I express my gratitude to the honourable Prime Minister and her
government for this.”

There is a huge trade and investment potential in the greater Mymensingh
region and Greater Mymensingh Samity as an effective platform can play an
important role to utilise the potential, he said.

About the early flashflood that hit the country’s haor region this year
damaging a vast area of boro paddy field, President Hamid stressed the need
for bringing a change in the lifestyle and livelihood of haor dwellers and
developing new varieties of flood-tolerant crops aiming to cope with the
adverse affects of climate change.

“Natural environment is being changed rapidly in the country and that’s why
all must think in this regard,” he said, underscoring the invention of
sustainable technology and its proper use to ensure local advancement and
enhance the standard of people’s living.

At the outset of his speech, the President paid rich tribute to Father of
the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the greatest Bengali of
thousand years, and other patriotic people who embraced martyrdom in the
country’s different democratic movement in different times, including the
1971 War of Liberation.

Earlier, President Hamid inaugurated a six-storey building of Greater
Mymensingh Samity here.

Chief Coordinator for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Affairs at the
Prime Minister’s Office Md Abul Kalam Azad, political leaders and
professionals of the region, and senior civil and military officials, among
others, were present.

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