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The Prime Minister said that the jute and jute goods are the products of agriculture and industry and therefore, the refurbished jute mills would be the assets of the country.
Jute could be an alternative to synthetic products to prevent environment pollution, she added.
Coming down heavily on some political parties particularly BNP without mentioning its name, Sheikh Hasina, also president of the ruling Awami League said that there are many political parties in the country but none of those was seen standing beside the people in the crisis arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“My question is that how many political parties or NGOs and voluntary organisations stand by the people at this moment,” she said.
In this context, the premier said that it was very easy to criticise others and find out flaws in the budget staying at home, adding it was the Awami League which had achieved the country’s independence under the leadership of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu SheikhMujiburRahma and it stands beside the people.
The Awami League and its front and associate bodies such as the Juba League, Chhatra League, Swechchhasebak League, Krishok League and Jatiya Shramik League, alongside the government, have been working to mitigate the plight of the coronavirus-hit people in their every need of relief materials and personnel protection equipment , burials of those died of COVID-19, harvesting paddy, making the people aware about maintaining social distancing and health code.
About the preparation to offset the impact of flood on the people, she said that the government has taken initiatives in advance to help the flood-hit people immediately after any disaster in the country.
She said her government takes prior preparations to face any disaster as it knows natural disasters hit Bangladesh routinely due to its geographical location.
The premier said her government has already sent dry foods, rice and cash money allocated for the flood-hit people in different districts and allocated money and rice for remaining districts so that they could take prompt measures.
Noting that the entire world has become stagnant due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she said Bangladesh likewise other countries of the world would turnaround again after fighting the lethal virus.
The premier called upon all to abide by the health guidelines and social distancing in a proper manner instead of being panicked out of corona phobia, saying, “We’ll have to win against the fear.”
BSS/AHJ/GA/1805 hrs