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PM wants officials to work in coordination

Local September 21, 2015

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged the government officials to work in a coordinated way as ministries or divisions are interdependent for development works.
‘Our ministries and divisions are interdependent for implementing any development project, coordination is needed there, coordination should be ensured in such a way that decision making and implementation can be done quickly,’ she said.
The prime minister was speaking at the signing ceremony of Annual Performance Agreement at her office. The Annual Performance Agreement for the 2015-2016 fiscal was signed between the Cabinet Division and other Ministries or Divisions.
She said any government comes to power for a limited period, but a country cannot remain stagnant.
‘You’re the officials of the republic, it’s your duty to ensure the continuity of the pace of development, governments will come and go, their policies will remain changed, and the pace of development has to be continued.’
Mentioning that three years left for her government to complete its tenure, Hasina said in these three years this government wants to place the country in a position where no one would be able to play with the fate of the country’s people.
‘The pace of development has to be maintained in this country where people never be exploited and deprived…that’s our aim,’ she said.
Sheikh Hasina directed the authorities concerned to be more attentive towards maintaining the trend of development works and said the Awami League government works to serve people, not to rule.
Stressing the need for setting priority programmes for different ministries and divisions, she directed the secretaries to be more attentive to and monitor activities to achieve their targets with more efficiency.
‘We believe in equal and balanced development, we want to build the country as a poverty-free one in line with the spirit of the Liberation War which was dreamt by the Father of the Nation,’ Hasina said.
She mentioned that the aim of the present government is to implement the development projects for rural people. ‘If we cannot make the rural economy stronger, raise their purchasing capacity, make them free from poverty, fulfill their basic needs, then there is no meaning of doing politics,’ the PM said.
She also mentioned the aim of her politics is to improve the socio-economic condition of people at the lowest ladder of society.
‘We want to provide them a better life in terms of education and knowledge, minimise the gap between the poor and the rich, and reduce the income disparities. So all our development programmes are centering people, we want to reach the benefits of these development programmes to these people,’ she said.
Hasina said the ministries and divisions prepare their annual strategic goals and action plans in line with the Vision-2021, Fifth Year Plan and Perspective Plan.
Referring to the first cycle of Annual Performance Agreement, the Prime Minister said there have been good results from the initiative and it has been proved that the success could be achieved if steps are taken properly.
She underscored the need for further training the officials to enhance their efficiencies that will in turn ensure the development and welfare of people.
Finance minister AMA Muhith, cabinet secretary M Mosharraf Hussain Bhuiyan and principal secretary Md Abul Kalam Azad and secretary on Coordination and Reforms, Cabinet Division Nazrul Islam also spoke on the occasion.
Ministers, prime minister’s advisers, state ministers and senior officials of different ministries and divisions were present.