RANGPUR, July 19, 2018 (BSS) – The younger generations should build up
book-reading habit since their childhood to become enlightened citizens for
building a superlatively educated nation.
Educationists and literary personalities made the observation while
addressing a function held at RCCI Public School and College in the city for
distribution of books to the students on Wednesday, a press release said
today.
The Biswa Shahityya Kendra (BSK) under its ‘Country-based excellence
programmes’ organised the function with assistance of Bkash Limited to expand
book reading programme.
Noted literary personality Ali Imam as the chief guest attended the
function moderated by Joint Director (Programme) of BSK Mesbah Uddin Ahmed
Suman.
General Manager (Regulatory and Corporate Affairs) of Bkash Limited
Humayun Kabir, Chairman of the Governing Body of RCCI Public School and
College Mostafa Sohrab Chowdhury Titu and its Principal Professor Muhammad
Abdul Jalil and Organizer of Rangpur unit of BSK Syed Ariful Islam spoke as
special guests.
Humayun Kabir said Bkash Limited has been remaining involved with the
‘Country-based excellence programmes’ of BSK for the school and college level
students since 2014.
“Bkash Limited has donated a total of 1.78-lakh books, including 38,000
in 2018 alone, to BSK for expanding its book-reading programmes to produce
enlightened citizens,” he said.
“Bkash believes that book-reading can expand outlook of the people who
can illuminate the society and contribute to the national development in
various ways,” he added.
Through the book reading programme of BSK, Bkash would continue to
contribute sincerely to tie the ‘enlightened citizens’ and ‘development’ in
the same thread to build an enlightened and development nation, he said.
Mesbah Uddin Ahmed Suman said that BSK has been organising various
excellence programmes for the students for the last 40 years with the dream
of building enlightened people.
“The countrywide excellence (book-reading) activity is one of the most
notable programmes toward the direction. Currently, around two-lakh male and
female students of 2,000 educational institutions are involved with this
programme,” he said.
The chief guest said book-reading habit glorifies personal as well as
social life and everybody, including the students, should read books to
acquire proper knowledge for building an enlightened nation. Later, he
distributed books to the students of the educational institution.