Ensure government services for the rural people

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BSS, Rangpur :
Speakers at a daylong workshop have stressed on enhanced GO-NGO and private sector collaboration to ensure reaching all available government services easily to the rural people for accelerating national uplift.
They put emphasis on coordinated efforts of all government, non-government and local service providing organisations and public representatives for faster socioeconomic uplift and empowerment of the rural people, including women and children.
Solidarity, an NGO, organised the workshop for representatives of union level service providing organisations, public representatives and community leaders at Bhogdanga AK Bilateral High School under Sadar upazila in Kurigram on Thursday.
The NGO organised the workshop under technical cooperation of the Souhardo-II Programme of CARE Bangladesh with financial assistance of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Government of Bangladesh (GoB).
Representatives of different government, non- government and private sector service providing organisations, bodies and institutions, public representatives, local community and women leaders, teachers, professionals, health workers and elite participated.
With Training Officer of Souhardo-II Programme of Solidarity Farzana Begum in the chair, Chairman of Bhogdanga union Shamser Ali attended the workshop as the chief guest.
Headmaster of Bhogdanga AK Bilateral High School Abul Hossain, Sub-assistant Agriculture Officer Asaduzzaman Sarker, female union Member Mariyam Begum, Rural Medical Practitioner Dr Jalal Uddin Sarker, addressed as the special guests.
The speakers stressed for making rural people more aware about available government services, creating awareness on the digitisation process, its facilities, education, constitutional rights, health, hygiene, sanitation, environment and disaster management.
They called for reaching government services available at union levels to rural people, enhancing women development and empowerment through eradicating gender disparity and preventing repression, violence, child marriage, dowry, divorce and polygamy.
They suggested local service providers to ensure easier access to information for rural people about social safety net activities of the government, vulnerable group feeding and vulnerable group development programmes, old age and maternal allowances and other services.
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