Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that development from the grassroots is the main goal of the Awami League government. Engineers must focus on how to keep development moving while keeping resource limitations in mind.

He said this while attending the opening ceremony of the ’61st Convention of Bangladesh Engineers Institution’ at Ramna in the capital on Saturday (May 11) morning.

He said, care should be taken to make any project cost-effective, environment-friendly and sustainable. We have to work towards creating our own market.

Sheikh Hasina said, we can face the challenges that will come. That’s how we have to prepare from now on.

He further said that along with the industrialization of the country, increasing our purchasing power, our own huge market, we have to create that market and planning is undertaken keeping that in mind. Already digital has been done in Bangladesh, now smart will be done in Bangladesh.

The Prime Minister also said that the government has taken multifaceted measures to meet the demand for electricity.

The theme of this year’s convention is ‘Engineering and Technology for Smart Bangladesh’. The main attraction of the convention is the national seminar titled ‘The Engineers for Transforming Technology Driven Smart Bangladesh’.