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Researchers to get govt care

PM tells jute genome decoding team at reception

UNB, Dhaka
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government will give special thought to job tenure and salary scale of the researchers, in order to ensure complete support for research in the country.
“Until the final result of any research work comes out, my government will give all types of support and assistance to the researchers. Research is not a normal routine task... researchers have no time limit, no money limit,” she said.
The premier was talking to the team, led by scientist Dr Maqsudul Alam, who were involved in decoding the genome sequence of jute, when they met her at Gono Bhaban yesterday morning.
"We will take special measures so that researchers do not face any trouble due to limitations of job tenure and limited salary,” Hasina told the scientists. She, however, said researchers must have specific projects to enjoy such facilities.
Expressing her happiness over decoding the genome sequence, the PM said, “What a pride for us! Our own scientists have decoded genome sequence of our own jute."
The PM also called upon all scientists to go for research works on diversification of jute products as she said diversified jute products have high demand in the international markets these days in the aftermath of climate change.
She asked the ministries and departments concerned, as well as private entrepreneurs to explore markets for jute products across the world.
Hasina lamented that jute, which was once the main foreign currency earning agricultural product of Bangladesh, has almost lost its past glory.
“Now in the endeavour of the government to make a developed Bangladesh, jute can be one of our main strengths,” she said.
She said now that the jute genome has been sequenced, the jute industry is going to get its lost glory back.
“You have done a tremendous job. Now we must nurture it and ensure the best utilisation of your discovery,” the PM said.
Hasina also expressed gratitude to members of the families of the scientists, as they show tremendous patience in supporting them.
Bangladeshi researchers decoded the jute plant genome, which would help improve the fibre length and quality, including colours and strength and help develop high yielding, saline soil and pest-tolerant jute varieties through genetic engineering.
Hasina made the announcement of Bangladesh's scientific achievement in Parliament on June 16.
Researchers from Dhaka University, Bangladesh Jute Research Institute and software company DataSoft in collaboration with Centre for Chemical Biology, University of Science, Malaysia and University of Hawaii, USA have decoded the genome.
Bangladeshi scientist Dr
Maqsudul Alam, a professor of the University of Hawaii, who earlier decoded the genome of papaya in the US and rubber plant in Malaysia, led from the forefront in sequencing the jute genome.
With this decoding, Bangladesh becomes only the second country after Malaysia, among the developing nations, to achieve such a feat.
Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury, Dr Maqsudul Alam, Prof Emeritus Dr Md Zawawi Ismail, Chairman of the Board of University Sains Malaysia and world famous genome scientist Dr Chriss Defter of Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA also spoke on the occasion.