NEW YORK, Sept 28: in the last four and a half years 50 million people have joined the ranks of the middle class while the average gross domestic product (GDP) at 6.4 percent remained, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the UN General Assembly yesterday, says a report from UN News Center.
"Bangladesh is often as a" model of economic development ' and the ' standard bearer of South Asia "named", and Bangladesh is to Sheikh Hasina, said to a middle income country has become.
With cutting-edge digital technology, the Prime Minister said the country is already well on the way, some of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) that meet a wide range of development indicators to combat poverty goals 2000 includes.
Women in rural areas have access to health care by digital related community health clinics, while advanced mobile technologies are also the services to more than 100 million subscribers, they said.
In the field of education, girls receive free education up to the higher secondary level as well as free textbooks and monthly stipends, she added. "Real national development is only through education," added the PM.
She said the only nation occupied UN delegations including Bangladesh might be today with women the position of Prime Minister, the speaker, the opposition leader and the Vice-Chair of the House.
But in spite of progress in some areas of Bangladesh is facing a disastrous future due to global warming and sea-level rise. A rise in temperature by one degree Celsius leading rise one meter of sea level, one-fifth of the country immerse and 30 million "climate migrants" would be created, she warned.
Bangladesh is the first among the South Asian Nations, which is to ratify the comprehensive nuclear-test-ban Treaty (CTBT) and anti-personnel mine ban treaty and land first sign the Treaty on the arms trade, she said.
The Prime Minister reminded the delegations to the world body as Bangladesh least developed by resource constraints, keeping back donor must well on providing development aid of 0.7 per cent of their gross national product (GNP) is a country.
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