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Hasina for making Bangla UN's official language

UNB, Dhaka
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged Bangladeshis living abroad to mobilise global opinion in favour of making Bangla as one of the official languages at the United Nations.
She made the call while inaugurating a three-day programme marking the Language Martyrs Day and International Mother Language Day, 2012 held at the International Mother Language Institute in the capital.
Hasina said the government is trying its best to make Bangla as one of the official languages at the United Nations, and she herself had already placed a proposal to this end before the UN General Assembly.
The premier said International Mother Language Day “calls us all to become world citizens by being respectful to everyone. All countries and people of all languages will benefit by bearing this spirit. And this will lead to unity in diversity.”
This year the theme of the day is 'Mother tongue instruction and inclusive education'.
Hasina said the aim of her government is to build the Bengali nation as science-oriented and technologyefficient. “We have created scopes for extensive use of Bangla in all spheres of science. .. it is easier to impart
education and acquire knowledge in mother tongue.”
As part of the efforts to build digital Bangladesh by 2021, Hasina said, the government has made the installation of full-fledged Bangla key pads in basic mobile handsets mandatory, beginning this month.
Besides, initiatives have been taken to formulate the second country coded internet domain dotbangla, apart from dotbd (.bd), she said.
The premier also mentioned that all those countries, which have advanced in the innovation of information technologies, used their mother languages in their applications.
Hasina said her government has taken an initiative to use Bengali in information technology. “Even the rural people can now take the e-services.”
She recalled the contributions of language martyrs
Salam, Barkat, Rafiq, Jabbar and others. She also reminisced about the role of her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as he had been imprisoned several times while leading the language movement.
The premier said the movement had opened up the path for the preservation and flourishing of Bengali language, culture, non-communal philosophy of life, democratic ideology, and human values.
“These expectations were fulfilled through the Liberation War in 1971, but that did not last long. After the assassination of Bangabandhu with most of his family members in 1975, a process was initiated to return the country to its pre-liberation state,” she observed.
“We have restored the spirit of the Liberation War through the (15th) amendment to the constitution,”
she said.
Bangladesh first placed formal proposal to Unesco in September 1999 to name February 21 as International Mother Language Day. Unesco then recognised the day as International Mother Language Day on November 17,1999.
Thus, the February 21 has become the day for protecting the rights of languages of different ethnic people of the world, she said.
The prime minister also said the government has taken steps to turn the International Mother Language Institute into an international organisation.
Prof Emeritus Dr Rafiqul Islam presented a paper titled 'Ekusher Rin' at the ceremony.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid, Zinnat Imtiaz Ali, director general of International Mother Language Institute, among others, were present.