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Our Correspondent, Gaibandha

The speakers at a function stressed the need for changing the socio-economic condition of the neglected char dwellers through involving themselves in different development and income generating activities.

"All kinds of existing facilities including health, education, sanitation, communication of the state should be ensured for the char people as they are the citizens of the country and have the rights to enjoy it like other people of the manland. They said this in an advocacy meeting with the pressmen working in different print and electronic media on the issue of socio-economic development of char dwellers at the hall room of Friendship regional office of the town here on Thursday.

In cooperation with Manusher Jonno Foundation, "Friendship" organised it under Rural Social Education Project.

Presided over by M Rafiquzzaman, Project coordinator of Friendship, the meeting was also addressed, among others, by project officer M. Jakir Hossain, area manager Anisur Rahman and the journalist M Mashiar Rahman Khan and Gobinda Lal Das.

Project Coordinator M. Rafiquzzaman briefed the meeting that Friendship has been working on different development issues in remote char areas of the district for six years aimed at development of the fates of char people.

Referring to the role of journalists in making a happy and prosperous society, he sought cooperation of all journalists and local Administration.