Ensure proper use of public money for development: PM

Drive against corruption to continue

FE Team | Published: October 03, 2019 00:00:57

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the government has taken an initiative to ensure that every cent of project money is spent properly, report agencies.
She pledged not to allow "termites" to eat up development benefits by plundering money from the development projects.
The Prime Minister said this while inaugurating the official broadcasting of local private television channels through Bangabandhu Satellite-1 at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in the city.
"We sometimes see termites eating up (project fund) while undertaking and implementing development projects. We've been making efforts to catch and destroy the white ants as well as ensuring the proper use of every taka of the hard-earned public money for the development of the country," she said.
She reiterated that the ongoing drive against militancy, terrorism, drugs and corruption will continue, and that action will be taken against people involved in such malpractices.
"We've started a drive against militancy, terrorism, drug and corruption ... we'll continue it. Action will be taken against whoever is involved in these (offences), no matter who he is and what political party, view, relation and family he belongs to," said Sheikh Hasina.
She urged Association of Television Channel Owners (ATCO) leaders to be alert regarding broadcasting of propaganda as it creates confusion among people.
The prime minister urged the media personalities to remain alert against broadcasting any sort of propaganda that lead to create anarchy and mistrust among the people as well as in the country in the name of opposing the government.
Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud also spoke as the special guest at the event presided over by Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar.
Chairman of ATCO Anjan Chowdhury, also owner of Maasranga Television, delivered the speech of greetings, while Posts and Telecommunications Secretary Ashoke Kumar Biswas made the welcome speech.
In the function, commercial deeds over the broadcasting using the Bangabandhu Satellite-1 were exchanged between the private television channels and the state-owned Bangladesh Communication Satellite Company.