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The Daily Star, Dhaka, Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Metropolitan
Unb, Dhaka
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said that her government would do whatever is possible for the development of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).
"We've already started taking various projects for the development of the CHT and are also implementing the projects," she said while inaugurating the state-run cellphone company Teletalk's network in the upazilas of three hill districts.
She inaugurated the Teletalk network by making a call from her office to the CHT and talked with Post and Telecommunications Minister Rajiuddin Ahmed Raju.
Press Secretary to the Prime Minister Abul Kalam Azad briefed reporters after the inaugural ceremony.
Hasina alleged that the previous BNP-led alliance government stopped all development activities that were taken during her government from 1996 to 2001.
"Considering the welfare of the people in the CHT, we signed the CHT peace accord for political solution in the area and took up various development activities," she said. "But the BNP-led alliance government stopped all kinds of development activities in the region."
She also said that all analogue land phone lines in the CHT areas will be gradually converted into digital.
Hasina said that her government wants to build a digital Bangladesh. "With the inauguration of Teletalk network in all upazilas of the CHT, we're stepping towards achieving that goal as per our election pledge."
She also reaffirmed her own and her government's strong commitment to continuing the trend of peace and prosperity in the coming years like the first year of the present democratic government.
She said her government has been successful in implementing the most important election pledges, including reducing the prices of essentials.
The prime minister alleged that the previous BNP-Jamaat government destroyed country's democracy and ruined the nation through widespread corruption and by killing thousands of progressive and pro-liberation people.
"Now as the people have brought us to power through their spontaneous votes, we've taken it as a great responsibility to work for the people and to serve the nation. We're not anti-people like BNP and Jamaat. We don't kill people like the four-party alliance, we protect the people's lives and properties," she said.
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