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Int'l Youth Day Observed

Vow to root out graft

Staff Correspondent
Thousands of youths vowed lb root out corruption from the country at daylong programmes in the city yesterday to mark the International Youth Day.
With the slogan 'Unbeatable youth will resist corruption', thousands of students from different education institutions participated in a number of programmes organised by Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) at different places.
“Our country could be more developed if corruption was absent here. We, the new generation, are firm to resist corruption," Nasim, a student of Dhaka College, told this correspondent.
Youth Engagement and Support (YES), an organisation formed by TIB, was the ' co-organiser of the I programmes.
A colourful procession led by Dhaka University Vice Chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique was brought out from Teacher-Student Centre
: (TSC) that :erided in front of i the Aparajeyo Bangla after parading through different streets on the campus.
TIB Executive Director Dr Iftekharuzzaman and students from different education institutions participated in the procession holding placards inscribed with 'Stop Corruption'.
The DU VC said achieving development is impossible without honesty, transparency and accountability.
“The seed of honesty should be sowed in the hearts of the youths. The society should be changed through their innovation and creativity," he said before the procession starts.
Prof Arefin also inaugurated a cartoon exhibition at the games corridor ofTSC.
The cartoons on corruption reflected how some people are committing corruption and how students, police, Anti-Corruption
Commission, politicians, businessman and people from aH walks of life resist cofrfip-tion unitedly.
A debating competition was also held at the conference hall of Business Studies Faculty as part of the TIB programme.
Sohel, a student of Dhaka University, said, “Mass people of the country are the sufferers of corruption. Public awareness is a must to combat corruption. Such programmes would help create awareness.”
Shafiqul Islam, a student of the Institute of Education and Research, said, “Bangladesh has a good prospect for development, but we need to remove corruption from the country to that end.”
“The young generation can lead the country in removing corruption. The country needs to form a unity like 1971,”he added.
Later in the evening, a concert was held at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre.