British investments in Bangladesh will remain unaffected despite Dhaka terror attack: Stewart

British Minister of State at the Department for International Development Rory Stewart has allayed fears of any decline in British investment in Bangladesh and has said his country believes "in good for Bangladesh".

“The UK investments will be confident and the same, it will not be affected by terrorism attack," the minister said during a school inspection at Mirpur on the second day of his Bangladesh tour.

"The UK investments will continue in the same way, it will not be affected by terrorism attack. We believe in good for Bangladesh, it has fantastic future and the economy is growing strongly...fantastic improvement in development works,” he said.

This one of real success stories of Asia in development sides. And we would really like to continue to support you. So there will be no change in our programmes and we are looking forward to future of confidence," he said.

Speaking of Britain's association at various fronts of development in Bangladesh he said, "Britain works with Bangladesh in many different spheres, like quality of education, workers safety in factories. The two countries have very big, close and long term relations. Millions of Bangladeshi people are living in Britain."

Stuart praised the students of National Government Primary School during his inspection. The "English in Action" course at the school is administered through UK development agency DfID.

"This is actually an excellent school. I am deeply stuck by the interaction between students and teachers. They have good quality of English, and students are encouraged to speak."

“Sometimes in the classroom teachers speak everything and students have to listen, but in this classroom students are lively, I think this is a very good school and they are very proud students of Bangladesh.”

Later, speaking to bdnews24.com, the school's English teacher Rebecca Sultana said the ‘English in Action’ programme has been running at the school since 2012.

She said the visiting minister, who is also a former Harvard guest professor and private tutor to Prince Harry and Prince William, spent time writing English words on the board and asking students what they meant.

She said the students also responded enthusiastically to his queries.