Dhaka: The development and achievements after the birth of Bangladesh need to be written up compactly for observing it’s 50 years of independence and journalists’ should initiate it, said Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith on Tuesday.

The minister said these while inaugurating the office of Economic Reporters’ Forum (ERF) at Paltan Tower in the city.

He said, ‘Reporters’ wrote and still are writing the developments trend of the country. In 2021 the country will step into its 50 years so I am asking the reporters to start writing a book on it.’

The Governor of Bangladesh Bank Fazle Kabir, while addressing the programme as the special guest, expressed his good wish saying that ERF took 25 years after establishing to launch their own office and they will become an economic reporting institution within a shorter time.

He also said, ‘The economy of the country is flourishing as well as the economic reporting is also getting bigger shape and now it is time to increase the quality of it.’

The Governor assured that if the forum starts providing skill development training to the economic reporters they will support it from the central bank because, to him, objective and good reporting are important for economic development.

Shykh Seraj, director of news of Channel I, Mohammed Farashuddin, former governor of Bangladesh Bank also spoke, among others, while ERF President Saiful Islam Dilal chaired the programme.