Sajjadul urges students to acquire knowledge

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NETRAKONA, May 29, 2019 (BSS) – Secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office
(PMO) Sajjadul Hasan today called upon the students to acquire knowledge to
make themselves enlightened and worthy citizens in the country.

“You (students) are the future of the country…So, you have to attain
knowledge of different fields of education to build an economically advanced
country,” he told at the stipend money distribution function among
meritorious students in Netrakona public hall here.

Netrakona foundation organized the function for distributing stipend money
amounting to taka 16 lakhs among 400 university level poor and meritorious
students of the district.

Chaired by deputy commissioner Netrakona Main-UL-Islam, the function was
addressed, among others, by prominent writer and Ekushey Padak winner
Professor Jatin Sarker, chairman of Netrakona Zila parishad Prasanta Kumar
Ray, chairman of Netrakona Sadar upazila parishad professor Tapsiruddin Khan
and mayor of Netrakona pourasava Nazrul Islam Khan.

Sazzadul said the government has taken different initiatives to impart
quality education to create human resources for building an economically
advanced Bangladesh.

“The new generation should be given global standard education to build
them as competent citizens of the country,” he added.