Dhaka, Oct 30, (V7N) – Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Administrator Abdus Salam said Friday that the country's future rests in the hands of children, stressing the need to nurture them as good citizens through sports, music, dance and moral education alongside academic studies.

He said future ministers, lawmakers, mayors, administrators and competent journalists would emerge from the new generation, making it essential to instil education, morality and patriotism in children from an early age.

He made the remarks as the chief guest at the Children and Adolescents Cultural Festival-2026, organised by Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU), according to a press release.

Addressing the children, Abdus Salam said the responsibility for carrying forward the legacy of the country's red-and-green flag, earned through the Liberation War in 1971, would fall on the new generation, who would lead the country in the future.

Referring to the DRU premises, he said the land was allocated to the organisation during the tenure of former Dhaka mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka. He assured the organisation of assistance in resolving any legal complications that might arise in constructing its building.