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BSS, Rangpur

Speakers in a discussion meeting here on Thursday stressed the need for creating mass awareness to make the society free from the curses of child marriage and dowry and preventing child and maternity mortality.

Thengamara Mohila Sobuz Sanggha (TMSS) under the National Nutrition Programme organised the colourful rally and discussion meeting at Begum Rokeya auditorium in the upazila town with its Upazila manager Rouf Uzzaman in the chair.

UNO of Mithapukur upazila AKM Masuduzzaman participated in the rally and the meeting as chief guest while Upazila Health and Family Planning Officer Dr Abdur Rashid Akand was present as the special guest.

Bogra Foundation Zonal Coordinator of TMSS Abdur Rouf, Upazila Public Health Officer Madhob Chandra Sarker, Upazila Women's Affairs Officer Seloara Begum, Youth Development Officer Osman Goni and Family Planning Officer Shahadat Hossain addressed the meeting.

Earlier, the colourful rally participated by hundreds of people including marriage registrars, nurses, NGO workers and activists, professionals, public representatives and elite paraded the streets of the upazila town.