PM: "Be more qualified for attaining rights"

Live Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called upon the country’s women to be more qualified through education and training to attain their own rights. “Right has to be achieved and quality is needed to attain it. And this quality would come through education and training,” she said.

The premier made this call while addressing a ceremony as the chief guest, joining virtually from her official Ganabhaban residence. The Ministry of Women and Children Affairs organized the function at Bangladesh Shishu Academy Auditorium to mark the International Women’s Day- 2021.

Sheikh Hasina told the women that no right is realized through shouting and delivering address rather it comes on the basis of skillfulness. Referring to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s move to make primary education free and compulsory for women, she said her government is now providing scholarships up to higher education where over 70 percent beneficiaries are female students.

The premier said, “Both male and female are needed to be educated to build
 he society.”

Sheikh Hasina said, “Bangladesh has attained the acknowledgement of a developing nation and on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of the country’s independence, our desire is that both men and women will keep continuing this progress.”

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said after assuming power in 1996 they saw that there was no women justice in the higher court, no women secretary in administration and no facilities in many places for women in the country.

But, the Awami League government took initiatives gradually to post women in those positions as Bangabandhu had paved the way by changing the law immediately after independence of the country that barred women from participating in judicial service examination to get jobs in the Pakistan era, she said.

“Awami League government assuming power has opened the opportunities for women in every sphere of society which is also an outcome of the thinking of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, she added.

Sheikh Hasina also briefly highlighted different initiatives taken by her government for the country’s women such as domestic violence (prevention and protection) act 2010, national women development policy 2011, national action plan in women development-2013-2025, women and child repression protection act-2000, extension of maternity leave to six months, writing mother’s name compulsory alongside father of their children, providing hostel facilities or working women and daycare centre for the children of working women etc.

She urged the country’s women to engage themselves in income generating activities instead of sitting idle at home.

Dhaka, 08 March (campuslive24.com)//AIT

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