Children urged to build knowledge-based soceity

Eminent personalities on Friday urged children to keep up the practice of reading books and vow to establish a knowledge-based society.
Addressing the welcome session of a two-day prize giving ceremony of Bishwo Shahitto Kendro at Ramna Batamul in the capital, they also called upon parents to cooperate with their children so that they could grow moral and ethical values through the reading habit.
The BSK has been organising the annual programme for 14 years in Dhaka under its countrywide book reading programme.
Last year, 40,000 students, from Class VI to X of 115 schools in Dhaka city, took part in the book reading competition while 6,471 of them were selected in four categories.
Winners in both the first and second categories got one book each while those in the third category got two books and the fourth category winners got three books each.
BSK founder Abdullah Abu Sayeed said, ‘I have always dreamed of developing an enlightened generation who will possess knowledge on every field and on every aspect.’
He told the children that the books were effective weapons which could spread their thoughts to a bigger sphere and keep them ahead of time.
Professor Muhammad Zafar Iqbal said the government should establish more libraries as the country’s most educational institutions had no libraries.
Some 4,350 students of 84 schools received the award on Friday, and 2,121 students of 31 schools would receive award today at Ramna Batamul.
Ripon, a student from Educo Junior High School, said, ‘I have discovered my thirst for knowledge after participating in the book reading programmes. I got the real taste of study and seeking knowledge. BSK has actually paved my way to being a good student and a knowledge seeker.’
Former adviser to a caretaker government Jamilur Reza Choudhury, ministry of public administration senior secretary Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury , dramatist Mamunur Rashid, novelist and journalist Imdadul Haque Milon, deputy editor of Prothom Alo Anisul Haq, Abdul Awal, Mohammad Farid Uddin, Alam Shahriar, Khairul Alam Sabuj and Debashish Roy spoke at the prize giving ceremony.
Later, the guests handed over the prizes to the participants.

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