Statistics and Information Management Secretary Aleya Akhter. Photo : collected

SYLHET, Nov 20, 2025 (BSS) - Statistics and Information Management Secretary 
Aleya Akhter today urged all stakeholders to work in a coordinated manner to 
achieve the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

"The government is firm to achieve the SDG targets . . . It has already 
adopted an action plan to implement the Sustainable Development Goals 
declared by the United Nations (UN)," she said.

The secretary came up with this remark while speaking as the chief guest at a 
seminar on 'SDG Localization' organised by the Statistics and Information 
Management Department at the conference room of the Sylhet Divisional 
Commissioner's Office here today.

She said special emphasis has been placed on the localization of SDGs to 
involve people from different classes and professions of the society with the 
SDGs.

Aleya Akhter said the prime objective of SDG localization is to bring forward 
the needs of the backward communities and formulate development plans in that 
light.
 
Taking into account local culture, environment and needs, development 
planning is most important in terms of SDG localization, she added.

"Each of us has to be accountable for our work . . . We have to conduct state 
activities within the constraints of resources and opportunities," she 
mentioned.

The Statistics and Information Management Department secretary hoped that a 
tremendous success is possible if all work with honesty and sincerity from a 
place of responsibility.

In her speech, she instructed the concerned authorities to achieve the SDG 
targets by 100 percent cultivation of wasteland in Sylhet, bringing 100 
percent education to children in tea gardens, and developing roads and 
infrastructure to expand the tourism.

Sylhet Divisional Commissioner Khan Md Reza-un-Nabi chaired the seminar while 
the keynote address was presented by SDG Cell Deputy Director and Focal Point 
Md. Alamgir Hossain and Professor of Economics Department of Shahjalal 
University of Science and Technology Dr Md Rafiqul Islam.

Among others, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics Director General Mohammad 
Mizanur Rahman, Additional Secretary of Statistics and Information Management 
Department Mohammad Masud Rana Chowdhury and Sylhet Deputy Commissioner Md 
Sarwar Alam also spoke there as special guests.

Besides, officials from various government and private departments and media 
personnel were present.