The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

Bangladesh will achieve some of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) related to health and education sectors by 2015.

The optimism was expressed at a four-day international conference on 'Scaling Up: An Essential Strategy to Attaining Good for All' at Gazipur.

Addressing the conference, Fazle Hasan Abed, founder and Chairperson of BRAC, said health and education sectors have been making substantial progress towards achieving MDGs.

He said life expectancy in Bangladesh has now gone up to 65 years which previously was 45 years while infant mortality rate has reduced from 150 to 52, maternal mortality rate from 30 to 3 and the total fertility rate reduced from above 6 to below 3.