City Desk :
The 52nd Bangladesh Scouts Day will be observed with the theme “Smart Scouting, Smart Citizen” throughout the country today.
President Mohammed Shahabuddin and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued separate messages on the eve of the day, greeting all members of Scouts, reports UNB.
In his message, the President said scouting has immense importance as a co-curricular activity alongside formal education.
“Scouting helps children and adolescents become good citizens by teaching with joy,” he said.
Mohammed Shahabuddin said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced ‘Vision 2041’ to make Bangladesh a developed-prosperous-smart scouting country by 2041.
To achieve this goal, now it is essential to build the youths as honest, ideal, smart citizens through smart scouting, he said.
The president called upon scout leaders to play more effective role in transforming the country into a developed-prosperous-smart Bangladesh by further expanding and accelerating the scout movement.
The premier in her message said the Awami League government is determined to develop children, adolescents and youths as skilled human resources equipped with technological knowledge.
“Bangladesh Scouts are carrying out commendable works to develop honest, competent, efficient and ideal citizens through scouting as co-curricular activities alongside conventional education,” she said.
The prime minister hoped that every member of Bangladesh Scouts would play an important role in building a hunger-poverty-free, developed-prosperous ‘Golden Bangladesh’ as dreamt by the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, which means a knowledge-based Smart Bangladesh.