DHAKA, Nov 7, 2021 (BSS) - President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister 
Sheikh Hasina, in separate messages, today greeted all concerned on the 
occasion of the 51st Founding Anniversary of Institution of Diploma Engineers 
Bangladesh (IDEB) and People's Engineering Day-2021 to be celebrated 
tomorrow. 

   This year's theme of the day is "Education based on modern knowledge and 
workforce in building prosperous non-communal country." 

   In a message on the eve of the occasion, President Md Abdul Hamid said 
this year's theme of the IDEB's founding anniversary is very time-befitting. 

   He said there is no alternative but to skilled human resource for 
development and after the independence, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu 
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman realized it and emphasized on technical and vocational 
education. 

  "No country and nation can go ahead without flourishing creative talent and 
innovative knowledge," he said, adding that so the government has given 
importance to modern technology based technical and vocation education. 

   The President said the members of IDEB will have to play effective role to 
ensure the use of technologies for the benefits of the people.

  Main theme of Bangabandhu's ideology was to ensure harmony and coexistence 
of people irrespective of caste, creed and race, he said and hoped that the 
engineers of IDEB would keep themselves engaged in building non-communal 
Bangladesh upholding the ideology of Bangabandhu and spirit of the Liberation 
War.

  In her message, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Father of the Nation 
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was against colonial based education system 
and he wanted a modern technology based education system to build 'Sonar 
Bangla'.

  She said following the path of Bangabandhu, the Awami League government has 
targeted to increase enrollment rate of students in technical and vocational 
education to 50 percent for bringing this education system in the main stream 
education. The government has also established a number of new polytechnic 
institutes in the country in this regard, she added. 

   The premier said engineers of IDEB are playing important role in 
implementation of large projects such as mega Padma Bridge, Karnaphuli 
tunnel, metro rail, four-lane roads, elevated expressway and economic zones 
in the country. 

   "We've been taking and implementing multidimensional programmes to build a 
prosperous and developed Bangladesh by 2041 to fulfill the dream of Father of 
the Nation Bangabandhu," she added.

   Both the President and the Prime Minister wished the success of all the 
programmes of People's Engineering Day-2021.