1.25 crore people will be employed in 100 industrial zones: PM

Awami League president and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said, we will make Bangladesh free from hunger and poverty by the year 2021. The main target of our government is to reduce discrimination in development. We are working with the aim so that people in the villages get facilities of towns. About 1.25 crore people will be appointed in the 100 industrial zones that we are constructing. As a result nobody will be left jobless.

She said these at her introductory speech in the Awami League central working committee meeting on Friday. The meeting began at 5 pm at the Prime Minister’s official residence at Ganabhaban. The meeting was presided over by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina where central working committee members were present.

The Prime Minister also said, at present our economy is strong enough. This year the growth will be more than 8 percent. We have emphasized on villages for development. We have taken initiatives to reduce discrimination between villages and towns. Nobody will be left homeless or extreme poor. Even there will be no beggar.

BSS adds: The Prime Minister said, when a fire incident takes place, huge number of people usually gather at the place of occurrence creating obstruction to the fire fighters to extinguish the blaze. Most of them go to see the fire and they take selfie … I cannot understand that what happened to prompt them to take selfie.

“Not taking photo, they should bring some buckets of water and join the drive to extinguish fire … they will have to change their mindset and think about how to help douse the blaze,” she added.

The Prime Minister said those construct and use buildings have responsibilities for checking incidents of fire. “It’s the responsibility of the fire service to extinguish the fire. But those who construct and use buildings have responsibilities so that incidents of blaze do not occur,” she said.

“I will say that they have also a responsibility, but they don’t perform it. If any incident of fire happens, the government is blamed for that,” she continued.

Sheikh Hasina said there must have an arrangement for extinguishing the fire while constructing any building and the users of the buildings must have knowledge about what they will have to do during any fire incident.

“Most of the buildings are constructed in such a way that there is no fire exit and the fire exit is closed while making interior decoration. And in the case of the market, the fire exit is used as stores of goods of the shops,” she said.

The Prime Minister advised the people not to bring any destruction for themselves while going to use every inch of buildings for profit. “Don’t bring destruction for yourselves and become penniless while going to use every inch of the buildings for profit,” she said.

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