The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Rangpur

Speakers at a day-long workshop here on Tuesday stressed the need for making local government institutions more effective to establish democracy and ensuring rights of the backward and distressed Monga-hit people at grass roots level.

The workshop was organised for the public representatives on building social awareness and ensuring social rights of the Monga-hit distressed people at the conference room of Gangachara UP Parishad complex.

Association for Social Organisation and Development (ASOD) organised the workshop with a view to create mass public awareness and educate the public representatives about their responsibilities in ensuring social rights of the backward people for accelerating their developments.

Chaired by ASOD Executive Nizam Uddin, the workshop was addressed by UP members Nargis Akhter, Rumali Begum, Nilufar Yasmin, Habibul Islam, Abdul Khaleque, UP chairmen and Supervisor of ASOD Anowarul Islam.

The speakers discussed various issues like social rights, birth and marriage registrations, family planning, eradication of repression on women and children, ensuring child rights, reproductive health, women education, women empowerment, adolescents' health care, sanitation, nutrition, social curses like dowry, child marriage, divorce and superstitions, human trafficking and other related issues in the workshop. The local UP authorities could contribute a lot in ensuring the social rights for all people in the society including the backward, poor and distressed men and women at the grass root levels that would also help eliminating Monga from the poverty-prone areas, they said.