Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Shahab Uddin has said that the government is providing all necessary assistance for the development of women's education in Bangladesh. As a result of various initiatives of the government, unprecedented development of women's education has taken place in the country, he added.
He also said that if all concerned work for the development of women's education in their respective areas by utilizing government facilities, women will be able to be educated and play a greater role in the development of the country.
The minister was speaking as the chief guest at the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of Sujanagar Union Girls' High School at Baralekha upazila in Moulvibazar on Friday.
Shahab Uddin said that if a girls' school is established in the village, more women will be able to get education. He said the establishment of such a school would cost a lot of money and labor at the beginning but the government would take over the responsibility later. Thanking the founders, the minister said the government would provide all possible assistance for the development of the school, including widening the road to come to school.
Chairman of Baralekha Upazila Parishad Shoaib Ahmed, Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Md Shamim Al Imran, former Upazila Parishad Chairman and Acting General Secretary of Upazila Awami League Rafiqul Islam Sundar, founders of the school Badrul Islam and Tareq Ahmed and others were present at the event.
