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Chief of Army Staff General Moeen U Ahmed Thursday said "we won't stay longer" but initiate good works, though on a small scale, to be carried on in the future.
General Moeen, whose force is backing the present caretaker government, made the remark while inaugurating a small dairy farm cum bio-gas project under a self-reliance scheme, financed by the army, at Saikat cluster village in Char Pakkhimari union under Sadar Upazila, UNB reports from Sherpur.
He told his audience that country's development would speed up faster if this process continued and hoped that public representatives, businessmen, administration officials and local people would come forward to carry on the good deeds.
"Bangladesh has a lot of resources and we would not fall in want if these resources could be utilized properly," general Moeen said, adding that the small-scale dairy farm cum bio-gas project "is an example of what we can do with modicum resources".

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Against the backdrop of a debacle on the political arena, speakers at a seminar Thursday suggested creating
new leaderships in all strata through the practice of democracy from grassroots level to establish a functionally democratic society in the country.
"The leadership has to be in all strata of society…we can expect a qualitative change in the country only when competent leaderships will remain in every institution," professor of History of Dhaka University Prof Syed Anwar Hossain told the meet as special guest, UNB reports from Dhaka. Education Adviser Dr Hossain Zillur Rahman, who attended the inaugural session of the seminar at PIB, emphasized establishing the grooming institutions and the process in the country to train up leadership for facing long-term challenges. "Grooming institutions should be cherished so that leadership comes out through a process."