Prime Minister Tarique Rahman today (Monday) said the present government has started implementing different programmes aiming at improving living standard of the people of all strata in the society.

“After assuming office, the present government has started implementing different programmes of quality development for the cross section people in the society”, he said.

On the eve of the Pohela Boishakh, the first day of the Bengali New Year, which will be celebrated throughout the country tomorrow, the Prime Minister said this in a message to the nation, according to an official handout here today.

After ending the fascist regime of long one and half decade, he said the new democratic government has started its journey following the landslide victory in the national elections held on February 12.

As part of the ruling BNP’s electoral pledges, the PM said the government has started distribution of family cards, sports cards, canal excavation programme, providing financial support to Imam, Muazzin, khatib and other religious leaders.

The launching of farmers card is going to be started from the first day of the Bengali New Year, he said in his message. “This farmers’ card will play a vital role for the peasants and agricultural economy of the country and it is our expectation ahead of the Bengali New Year”, he said.

Welcoming the Bengali New Year 1433, the PM greeted all the Bengali speaking people across the world including the nation, saying that the Pohela Boishakh is a unique symbol of our ethnicity history, culture and self identity

This [Pohela Boishakh] return every year to our life for centuries through renewing a call afresh. The arrival of the New Year inspires us to go ahead after leaving behind the old decay and gloom, said the PM in his message.

Referring to the Pohela Boishakh which is inter-related with our agricultural of this region, nature and agro-based economic activities, the message elaborated that even the golden age of the development of information technology, the farmers set his timeframe of his crop production in line with the natural phenomenon.

Country’s thousand years old tradition, traditional folk culture, civilization and consistency of values revitalize afresh usually through the arrival of the Pohela Boishakh, said the message.

The traditional events like boishakhi mela, boishakhi sobhajatra, halkhata eventually uphold multidimensional beauty of our culture, he said, adding that so, the Bengali New Year has brought new expectation and new potentials in front us.

Expressing his pledge to pursue the path of people’s welfare through overcoming our narrow-mindedness and egoism, the PM hope that peoples of respective religious and cultural values and inherent tolerance of culture, generosity and practice of harmony will strengthen the democracy and fortify the coexistence of multiple opinions.