Dhaka, April 13 -- Prime Minister Tarique Rahman today (Monday) said the present government has started implementing different programmes aiming at improving the living standards 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, BSS reports.

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.

After ending the fascist regime of long one and half decade, he said the new democratic government has started its ...