Stand beside people, gain their confidence: PM urges officials

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged the officials of the administrative cadre to look into the problems of the local people in their assigned areas and work with devotion to resolve those alongside doing their usual official duties, reports BSS.

"The officials who work in the field level administration should have utmost sincerity to resolve the problems of the local people. Stand beside them and earn their confidence," she said while addressing the concluding ceremony of 102nd and 103rd Law and Administrative Course at BCS Administrative Academy at Shahbagh here.

"Officials must keep in mind that signing files is not their only duty. Rather they have to work with devotion and innovativeness to resolve the problems of people for their welfare," she said.

Administrative officials must have self-confidence and self-dignity, she added.

Minister for Public Administration Syed Ashraful Islam, State Minister Ismat Ara Sadeq and rector of the academy Anwarul Islam Sikder spoke among others on the occasion while Public Administration Secretary Dr Mozammel Haque Khan gave the welcome address.

The premier said members of the administrative cadre have huge responsibility to materialise the people's expectation. The government has focused on strengthening rural economy as it is possible through relentless services of the officials, she said.

"We've learned from the life of the Father of the Nation that we will be able to do better for the people as much as as we become closer with them," she added.

Urging the new cadres to understand the problems of the common people through their heart, the Prime Minister hoped that officials would discharge their duties with utmost sincerity and devotion keeping the spirit of the Liberation War.

Quoting Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Sheikh Hasina said there is no better happiness in the universe other than serving people.

She said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman fought against the discrimination with Bangalees in civil and military administration during Pakistani rule. He (Bangabandhu) suffered his whole life to liberate the country to get rid of the disparity, she added.

"Most of us would not be able to come to the present position if the country had not been liberated," she said.