PM warns of breaking airport security rules

Live Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged air passengers including very important persons (VIPs) to abide by existing security rules and regulations of the airports of the country, issuing a strong warning that errant passengers will be barred from boarding aircraft in future for violating the laws.

“We’ve given special attention to the security of our airports … all passengers will have to accept the existing international security rules and regulations (of the airports),” she said. She went on saying: “The ministers, parliament members, chiefs of the armed forces and other senior officials are present here. We’ve to ensure security of the airports in the way it is maintained in airports abroad.”

The prime minister said all will have to abide by the security rules and regulations of the airports and none can violate it. “If anyone try to break the laws, he or she will be prevented from boarding the plane in future … I’ll do it, and all will have to keep this in mind,” she said.

Sheikh Hasina said this while inaugurating the much-awaited construction work of Taka 21,300 crore ‘Third Terminal’ of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in the capital this morning.

The prime minister said her government is taking steps to further develop internal communication system. “When our government first assumed office in 1996, we created scope for the private airlines to operate their planes and now many private airlines are involved in the sector,” she said.

Sheikh Hasina said against this backdrop, the government took a decision to execute the “Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport Project” with the Japan government’s loan assistance to meet the future air transport demand and ensure global standard security through different infrastructural development including construction of the new third terminal.

“We (the government) and the people will continue work for the development of the country by giving hard labour day and night. But the uplift work will not be made for some people as they will change their own fate through dishonest way it won’t happen and not be tolerated,” Sheikh Hasina asserted.

She continued: “We want to build a developed and prosperous Bangladesh as dreamt by Bangabandhu by stamping out these social menaces.” Sheikh Hasina on behalf of the people of Bangladesh extended her heartiest thanks to the Japan government and JICA for staying beside the development of the aviation sector.

Dhaka 28 December (campuslive24.com)//az

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