PM for flourishing local products including Jute

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said they want to restore the lost glory of jute as we want to flourish our local products.

She told this at an opening of the country's maiden National Jute Day celebrations on Thursday in line with her last year's announcement, reports BSS.

The premier also said her government was making constant efforts to restore the lost glory of jute, reclaiming its repute of being the country's "golden fibre".

She added works were underway for modernization and diversification of jute products to reclaim the lost glory of the fibre which "once jute was the only foreign exchange earning sector of Bangladesh".

The premier said the 1975 assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman halted for a long time the country's progress upsetting the status of jute as well but after returning to power, her government took stapes for establish the glory of jute again.

Textiles and Jute Ministry organized a Diversified Jute Goods Fair coinciding with the National Jute Day 2017 while Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu joined as the special guest the function at the Krishibid Institution auditorium in the capital.

State minister for textiles and jute Md Imaj Uddin Pramanik chaired the function while state minister Mirza Azam and chairman of parliamentary standing committee on Textiles and Jute Ministry Saber Hossain Chowdhury also spoke while the ministry's acting secretary Gopal Krishna Bhattachariya gave the welcome address.

The Prime Minister distributed crests and certificates among ten individuals have contribution to promote the jute sector alongside winners of a divisional level essay writing competition for students coinciding with the day.

Sheikh Hasina said no government except Awami League agreed to give fair price of jute to farmers, which earlier forced many of them to abandon jute cultivation.

"The reality is that the Awami League government has ensured fair price for jute farmers as part of the commitment which we gave them in eighties and nineties," she said.

Sheikh Hasina lamented that after coming to power in 1991BNP had signed agreement with the World Bank for closing down all jute mills simultaneously.

On the other hand, she said the WB simultaneously signed agreement with India for financing for revival of their sick jute sector.