Congress president Sonia Gandhi today praised Bangladesh’s “path breaking innovations” in micro-finance, education, women’s empowerment and public health as she underlined the need for a partnership in South Asia to provide affordable services to millions of autistic children.
“Bangladesh has been such a fertile source of social innovation,” Sonia said while inaugurating an international conference on autism here. “We applaud your achievements,” she told the two-day conference, which was attended by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and global experts on autism.
Sonia, who arrived here yesterday, said Bangladesh was admired worldwide for its “path-breaking innovations” in micro-finance, education, women’s empowerment, public health and sanitation and “we applaud your achievements”.
“India has held together as one nation, deepened its democracy and accelerated its economic growth (while) Bangladesh has achieved economic and social success beyond anything thought possible at the time of its birth,” she said in her 15-minute speech.
The UPA chairperson proposed a partnership in South Asia so that autistic children have an easy access to services on affordable expenses. “On crucial issues like the fertility rate, proportion of underweight children, immunisation, number of mean years of schooling, child and infant mortality rates, and life expectancy, you are ahead of us,” she noted.
Sonia highlighted the shared history of the two nations and the great progress made by them over the decades. Bangladesh and India shared another link as they confounded “our prophets of doom”, she underlined. She pointed out that the two neighbours shared passions from the poetic and artistic legacy of figures like Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam to the sublime “ilish maachh” (most popular fish to Bengalis) and “mishti doi” (sweet curd). — PTI
“Bangladesh has been such a fertile source of social innovation,” Sonia said while inaugurating an international conference on autism here. “We applaud your achievements,” she told the two-day conference, which was attended by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and global experts on autism.
Sonia, who arrived here yesterday, said Bangladesh was admired worldwide for its “path-breaking innovations” in micro-finance, education, women’s empowerment, public health and sanitation and “we applaud your achievements”.
“India has held together as one nation, deepened its democracy and accelerated its economic growth (while) Bangladesh has achieved economic and social success beyond anything thought possible at the time of its birth,” she said in her 15-minute speech.
The UPA chairperson proposed a partnership in South Asia so that autistic children have an easy access to services on affordable expenses. “On crucial issues like the fertility rate, proportion of underweight children, immunisation, number of mean years of schooling, child and infant mortality rates, and life expectancy, you are ahead of us,” she noted.
Sonia highlighted the shared history of the two nations and the great progress made by them over the decades. Bangladesh and India shared another link as they confounded “our prophets of doom”, she underlined. She pointed out that the two neighbours shared passions from the poetic and artistic legacy of figures like Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam to the sublime “ilish maachh” (most popular fish to Bengalis) and “mishti doi” (sweet curd). — PTI
Top B’desh honour for Indira Gandhi
Former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was on Monday honoured posthumously with Bangladesh’s highest state award for her outstanding contribution to the country’s 1971 ‘Liberation War’. Congress president Sonia Gandhi received the “Bangladesh Swadhinata Sanmanona” from President Zillur Rahman at a grand ceremony attended by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and nearly 1,000 top dignitaries.
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