PM puts emphasis on research works

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has stressed the need for giving importance on the research works to make sure country’s advancement confronting all the odds.

“More importance should be given to research works. We have ensured food security as we have achieved great success in agricultural research,” she said while addressing as the Convocation Speaker of the special convocation arranged to confer Honorary Doctor of Laws degree on Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (posthumous) on Sunday (October 29).

The Prime Minister thanked Dhaka University authority for conferring Honorary Doctor of Laws degree on Bangabandhu.

“Dhaka University is such an institution for which I have a special place in my heart. If I could get admission again, I would be happy to finish my Master's degree here,” the premier, a graduate of the university said.

In this regard, she said that she has received many degrees from many countries of the world. But the DU degree is very special for her.

“I am not satisfied with those degrees as those were not from my university. Of course, I was given an honour. But it would have been better if I could have a chance for pursuing study here again,” she said.

“I want to tell one thing to our teachers and students standing at the Dhaka University that we want to build our country as developed enriched with knowledge and science,” she said.

The Prime Minister said that the only goal of her government is to build Bangladesh as cherished by Father of the Nation.

In this connection, she said that her only aim was to utilize the power for welfare of the people and build the country as dreamt by the Father of the Nation. “That’s what I’m trying to do,” she said.

Sheikh Hasina urged the educated people not to forget the downtrodden people in their areas.

“The more developed they will be, the better the country would be. The progress of a handful of people is not desired, it should be universal. Our development will come from the grassroots level,” she said.

She said that since 2009 the Awami League government is in the power and it has changed Bangladesh.

“We could do this by keeping every word of the Father of the Nation in our heart and realising his dream. I did it in that way,” she said.