Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged engineers to play more effective role in constructing infrastructure suitable to cope with adverse impacts of climate change, reports BSS.
"Engineers must play more effective role in building infrastructure tolerant to climate change and its adverse impacts, and ensuring food and energy security," she said in a message issued on Friday on the occasion of the 74th founding anniversary of the Engineers Institution, Bangladesh (IEB) and the Engineers' Day.
Greeting all the engineers on the occasion, the Prime Minister said the role of engineers is very important in the country's overall development.
The technological and engineering advancement is a key to the development of a nation, she said, adding that immediate after the independence of the country, the engineers had played a significant role in reconstructing war-ravaged Bangladesh under the leadership of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Sheikh Hasina said the engineers are moving the country forward through technical and engineering progress.
In the continuation of the Awami League government since 2009, she said, it has been implementing many mega projects including Padma Bridge, metro rail, elevated expressway, Karnaphuli tunnel, LNG terminal, Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant and 100 special zones apart from the development of road, rail and waterway communication. The engineers are playing a key role in the development projects, the Prime Minister said.
Recalling the government's constant support for the engineers, she said the AL government always remains beside them.
During its 1996-2001 tenure, the AL government allocated 10 bighas of land for construction of IEB building, while it provided a total of Tk 460 million for IEB building, Hasina said.
On the occasion of Mujib Year and the 50 years of the independence, she said, Bangladesh graduated to a developing country from a least developed one while the engineers had a significant contribution to this end.
Hasina also expressed the hope that the engineers would play a leading role in building a prosperous and developed Sonar Bangla, dreamt by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, by 2041.
