Those who take and give bribe both are equally guilty: PM

Risingbd Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that those who take and give bribe both are equally guilty.

The premier said this while exchanging Eid greetings with officials of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) here this morning.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the ministries to undertake development projects on a priority basis for implementation of the annual budget properly and accelerating the country’s uplift.

“The ministries will have to fix priority that which development schemes are needed first and accordingly, they will have to start the work of those projects,” she said.

Sheikh Hasina also asked the officials concerned to launch the physical work of the development works immediately after receding of flood water in this season.

“You’ll have to finish paper work and plans first and then focus on starting physical work immediately after receding flood water this season,” she said.

The prime minister urged all to work more sincerely to keep up the country’s achievements.

“The country’s GDP growth increased to 8.1 percent. However the speed of GDP growth becomes slow after the level and it’s a rule of the economy,” she said.

PM’s advisers HT Imam, Dr Moshiur Rahman and Dr Towfik-e-Elahi Chowdhury, Chief Coordinator on the SDG Affairs at the PMO Md Abul Kalam Azad, PMO Secretary Sajjadul Hassan, PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim and Speech Writer Nazrul Islam, among others, were present at the function, while PM’s Principal Secretary Md Nojibur Rahman moderated it._BSS.

risingbd/Dhaka/Aug 18, 2019/Nasim