Delta Plan to ensure country’s economic growth, food, water security: PM | The Business Standard
Skip to main content
  • Latest
  • Economy
    • Banking
    • Stocks
    • Industry
    • Analysis
    • Bazaar
    • RMG
    • Corporates
    • Aviation
  • Videos
    • TBS Today
    • TBS Stories
    • TBS World
    • News of the day
    • TBS Programs
    • Podcast
    • Editor's Pick
  • World+Biz
  • Features
    • Panorama
    • The Big Picture
    • Pursuit
    • Habitat
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Mode
    • Tech
    • Explorer
    • Brands
    • In Focus
    • Book Review
    • Earth
    • Food
    • Luxury
    • Wheels
  • More
    • Sports
    • TBS Graduates
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • Gallery
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Magazine
    • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Cartoons
  • বাংলা
The Business Standard

Sunday
June 08, 2025

Sign In
Subscribe
  • Latest
  • Economy
    • Banking
    • Stocks
    • Industry
    • Analysis
    • Bazaar
    • RMG
    • Corporates
    • Aviation
  • Videos
    • TBS Today
    • TBS Stories
    • TBS World
    • News of the day
    • TBS Programs
    • Podcast
    • Editor's Pick
  • World+Biz
  • Features
    • Panorama
    • The Big Picture
    • Pursuit
    • Habitat
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Mode
    • Tech
    • Explorer
    • Brands
    • In Focus
    • Book Review
    • Earth
    • Food
    • Luxury
    • Wheels
  • More
    • Sports
    • TBS Graduates
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • Gallery
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Magazine
    • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Cartoons
  • বাংলা
SUNDAY, JUNE 08, 2025
Delta Plan to ensure country’s economic growth, food, water security: PM

Bangladesh

BSS
20 January, 2021, 01:30 pm
Last modified: 20 January, 2021, 03:34 pm

Related News

  • Police arrest Hasina's principal secretary Nojibur Rahman
  • PM Hasina sits with university VCs, college principals at Ganobhaban
  • My doors are open for talks: PM Hasina to student protesters
  • Jamaat, Shibir, BNP unleashed terrorism using students in quota movement: PM Hasina
  • Almost a terrorist attack to create Sri Lanka-like mayhem: PM Hasina on quota violence

Delta Plan to ensure country’s economic growth, food, water security: PM

"Vision of the Delta Plan-2100 is to build a prosperous Bangladesh through adopting compact"

BSS
20 January, 2021, 01:30 pm
Last modified: 20 January, 2021, 03:34 pm
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina TBS Sketch.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina TBS Sketch.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the "Delta Plan-2100" would ensure the country's economic growth, water and food security as well as environmental stability in the long run overcoming various challenges, especially adverse impact of climate changes.

"Vision of the Delta Plan-2100 is to build a prosperous Bangladesh through adopting compact, comprehensive and effective strategies befitting with the changes of time," she said.

The Premier made the remarks in the Jatiya Sangsad while replying to a tabled question from the opposition lawmaker Md. Mashiur Rahman Ranga of Rangpur-1.

The Business Standard Google News Keep updated, follow The Business Standard's Google news channel

Mentioning this present Awami League government as the government of country's development, she said the 100-year long Delta Plan has been prepared for the country's long term and sustainable development, which also focused on building the country as a prosperous one within 2041.

Sheikh Hasina said the Delta Plan-2100 would be used for river dredging, river navigability, land raise and cultivation, housing, agriculture and industrialization etc.

She said the Delta Plan-2100, which approved by the National Economic Council (NEC) on September 4, 2018, has been framed was with three national goals in higher level and six specific goals related to the delta.

The higher level three goals are to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030, attain the status of a higher-middle-income nation by 2030 and a prosperous nation by 2041, she added.

The Prime Minister said a high level committee named "Delta Governance Council" has already been formed to provide political decision and direction for its overall implementation.

She went on saying the Delta Plan-2100 would be implemented through 17 five year plans, along with 80 projects to be implemented by 2030 involving an estimated cost of Taka 2,978 billion which is 2.5 percent of the country's GDP.

Sheikh Hasina said the process of formulating a policy related to Delta Fund Structure and its operation is under way.

Top News

Delta Plan 2100 / Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

Comments

While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderation decisions are subjective. Published comments are readers’ own views and The Business Standard does not endorse any of the readers’ comments.

Top Stories

  • File Photo: British MP Tulip Siddiq attends a news conference with Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, in London, Britain October 11, 2019. Photo: REUTERS/Peter Nicholls/File Photo
    Tulip requests CA Yunus for a meeting over corruption allegations: Guardian
  • Dhaka South City Corporation collecting waste from different areas under its jurisdiction following Eid-ul-Adha celebrations. Photo: TBS
    City corporations claim full waste removal, yet Eid waste visible on Dhaka streets
  • Leftist parties to hold road march on 27-28 June protesting corridor, foreign lease of port
    Leftist parties to hold road march on 27-28 June protesting corridor, foreign lease of port

MOST VIEWED

  • Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman and his wife exchange Eid greetings with Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna in Dhaka today (7 June). Photo: CA Press Wing
    Army chief exchanges Eid greetings with CA Yunus
  • Photo collage shows political posters in Bagerhat. Photos: Jannatul Naym Pieal
    From Sheikh Dynasty to sibling rivalry: Bagerhat signals a turning tide in local politics
  • BNP Standing Committee criticises chief adviser's speech, calls for national election by December
    BNP Standing Committee criticises chief adviser's speech, calls for national election by December
  • Rawhide collected from various parts of the city. Photo taken on 7 June in Old Dhaka. Rajib Dhar/ TBS
    Rawhide prices see slight increase, but below fair value
  • CA’s televised address to the nation on the eve of the Eid-ul-Adha on 6 June. Photo: Focus Bangla
    National election to be held any day in first half of April 2026: CA
  • BNP leaders lay a wreath at the grave of BNP founder Ziaur Rahman at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in Dhaka on 7 June 2025. Photo: BSS
    April not suitable for national polls: Fakhrul

Related News

  • Police arrest Hasina's principal secretary Nojibur Rahman
  • PM Hasina sits with university VCs, college principals at Ganobhaban
  • My doors are open for talks: PM Hasina to student protesters
  • Jamaat, Shibir, BNP unleashed terrorism using students in quota movement: PM Hasina
  • Almost a terrorist attack to create Sri Lanka-like mayhem: PM Hasina on quota violence

Features

Photo collage shows political posters in Bagerhat. Photos: Jannatul Naym Pieal

From Sheikh Dynasty to sibling rivalry: Bagerhat signals a turning tide in local politics

1d | Bangladesh
Illustration: TBS

Unbearable weight of the white coat: The mental health crisis in our medical colleges

3d | Panorama
(From left) Sadia Haque, Sylvana Quader Sinha and Tasfia Tasbin. Sketch: TBS

Meet the women driving Bangladesh’s startup revolution

4d | Panorama
Illustration: TBS

The GOAT of all goats!

5d | Magazine

More Videos from TBS

Why are traders worried about losses in the leather business again?

Why are traders worried about losses in the leather business again?

1h | TBS Stories
Why do political parties have different opinions about the elections in April?

Why do political parties have different opinions about the elections in April?

5h | TBS Stories
Power shift in Chinese politics, Is Li Qiang emerging in Xi Jinping's shadow?

Power shift in Chinese politics, Is Li Qiang emerging in Xi Jinping's shadow?

21h | TBS World
Commercial cultivation of red and black grapes on the soil of Bangladesh

Commercial cultivation of red and black grapes on the soil of Bangladesh

8h | TBS Stories
EMAIL US
contact@tbsnews.net
FOLLOW US
WHATSAPP
+880 1847416158
The Business Standard
  • About Us
  • Contact us
  • Sitemap
  • Advertisement
  • Privacy Policy
  • Comment Policy
Copyright © 2025
The Business Standard All rights reserved
Technical Partner: RSI Lab

Contact Us

The Business Standard

Main Office -4/A, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka- 1000

Phone: +8801847 416158 - 59

Send Opinion articles to - oped.tbs@gmail.com

For advertisement- sales@tbsnews.net