Nahid for improving efficiency to world standard

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said the prime goal of our education is to develop the skill of new generation to world standard.
“The present government is providing all necessary supports to flourish the inner potentialities of students in many ways to ensure the world standard education,” he said this on Saturday while distributing prizes among the winners in the 3rd ‘Creative Talent Hunting Competition -2015’ at Residential Model College Auditorium in the capital.
The minister categorically said “we are financially weak but not backward in qualities”.
The new generation will lead the nation to achieve the target of becoming a middle income country within 2021 and subsequently a developed one in 2041, he hoped.
He also called upon all concerned to build up a skill and meritorious new generation in the greater interest of the country.
Education Ministry’s Additional Secretary AS Mahmud presided over the function.
Among others, Education Ministry Secretary Md Nazrul Islam Khan, Director General of Secondary and Higher Secondary Directorate Fahima Khatun, Director (Training) Prof Shamsul Huda, College Principal Brigadier General Md Asduzzaman Subhani also spoke on the occasion.
In the talent hunting competition, a total of 6792 winners of four subjects in three categories took part. The competition began on February 26 and concluded on March 19, this year.
The four subjects were: language and literature (Bengali and English), Daily Science or Science (Physics, Chemistry and Biology), mathematics and computer, and Bangladesh and War of Liberation (history, civics, economics and sociology).