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Govt implementing massive programmes to achieve SDGs: Azad


Bangladeshpost
Published : 18 Dec 2019 09:38 PM | Updated : 04 Sep 2020 10:20 PM

Principal Coordinator on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) Abul Kalam Azad on Wednesday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government has been implementing gigantic programmes with an aim to achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, reports BSS.

Public and private sector’s development entities and other stakeholders have been engaged in the SDGs implementation process to this end, he said. He was addressing the inaugural function of a two-day conference on SDGs at Senate Building of Rajshahi University (RU) here as the chief guest. RU’s statistics department is hosting the seventh international conference on ‘Data Science and SDGs: Challenges, Opportunities and Realities’.

The two-day conference includes two keynote presentations, five plenary sessions, meeting with invited guest and presenting 18 contributory papers. Major focus areas of the conference are statistical inference, inference in stochastic processes, statistical computing, biostatistics, reliability, survival analysis and industrial statistics.

Besides, a poster session is being held in the conference with setting up 28 stalls showcasing its messages. Chaired by RU Vice-chancellor (VC) Prof Abdus Sobhan, the function was addressed by Statistics and Informatics Division’s Secretary of Planning Commission Saurendra Nath Chakrabhartty, RU Pro-VCs Prof Ananda Kumar Shaha and Prof Chowdhury Zakaria as special guests.

Convener of the conference Prof Sayedur Rahman welcomed the participants. Abul Kalam Azad said SDGs are of essence to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all, adding its key commitment is “no one will be left behind”. Mentioning that preparing of proper database is required to attain SDGs, he said government, policy makers and officials can take proper plans and implementation strategies to achieve SDGs within stipulated time as accurate and reliable database are made.

He, however, said the conference will serve as an excellent platform for the exchange of scientific knowledge on the latest developments and emerging challenges, opportunities and realities in the field of data science. The event is an excellent opportunity to discuss how we can achieve all the 17 SDGs and 169 targets in a coherent manner, he added.

Azad told the meeting that all-out efforts have been adopted to spearhead the SDGs messages to the grassroots level so that they can contribute to the implementation process.