ACC opens two Satata Stores in two city schools

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) inaugurated on Sunday two Satata Stores in the city's two secondary schools as part of the commission's campaign to enhance moral values among the students.

The two stores were opened at Willes Little Flower School and College in the city's Kakrail, and Udayan Higher Secondary School in the Dhaka University area under a joint initiative of ACC and UNDP in Bangladesh.

ACC commissioner AFM Aminul Islam inaugurated the two stores by turns while ACC directors general (prevention) Md Jafar Iqbal and Md Atiqur Rahman Khan (money-laundering cell), UNDP Bangladesh country director in Bangladesh Sudipto Mukerjee, and principals and governing body members of respective schools were present at the programmes.

ACC commissioner on the Willes Little Flower School premises said today's youth will lead the country tomorrow, so initiatives like Satata Stores will pave the way for the students to exercise virtues of integrity and honesty.

He said corruption can only be eradicated from the society through social movements like mass awareness, maintaining religious ethics, moral development and best practices apart from penalising the corrupts.

He also mentioned that the commission has installed over 600 Satata Stores around the country so far.

Satata Stores display stationery items and other educational equipment with price tags while the students can take items from the stores of their choice and put prices of those items in the designated cash boxes of their own.

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