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World to see we can do it

PM tells Sramik League about Padma bridge with own fund

Staff Correspondent
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her government will show the world that it can construct Padma bridge with the country’s own funds.
“We have liberated the country through a war and now we want to make it self-reliant. We don't want to beg from anyone,” she said.
Hasina, also president of the Awami League, was addressing the national council of the ruling party’s associated body Sramik League at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital yesterday.
The PM said she received overwhelming response from different sections of people to her efforts to generate funds from domestic sources for implementing the bridge project. " Inshallah, we will show the world that we can."
dependent on others.
She mentioned that her government has reopened the closed mills and made sure these do not plunge into losses again.
Referring to various "destructive activities" of the BNP-Jammat, Hasina said she believed people would not vote for those who would bring back militancy in the
country.
The AL president urged the Sramik League leaders and workers to remain alert so that none can play with the fate of the people again.
Others who spoke included Minister for Labour and Manpower Khandker Mosharraf Hossain and State Minister Monnujan Sufian, Shipping
Minister Shahjahan Khan, AL Labour Affairs Secretary Flabibur Rahman Siraj, International Labour Organisation (ILO) country director Andre Bogui and Sramik League general secretary Roy Ramesh.
Sramik League President Abdul Matin Master presided.
PM'S NEW PHONE
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The PM has taken a new cellphone number --8801555888555- to increase her interaction with people, said her Special Assistant (Media) MahbubulHoqueShakil.
The two other numbers — 8801711520000 and 8801819260371 - will also remain active, he added.
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The government is doing its best to make the country economically self-reliant, she said, and urged the workers to work hard with utmost sincerity to help achieve this goal. “You must increase production in all mills and factories so that we can boost exports," she added.
The present government is pro-worker, and the AL always works for the welfare of workers and poor people, the premier said. And this is why she put pressure on the owners of RMG factories to raise the minimum wages of their workers from Tk 1,600 to Tk 3,000. The government's target is to protect the rights of the workers.
Griticising the previous BNP-Jamaat government for shutting down a good number of mills across the country, including Adamjee Jute Mills, Hasina said they wanted to make the country