BSS, Rajshahi :
Collective effort has become an urgent need to make all the fertile families planned for the sake of happy and prosperous Bangladesh, speakers at a post-rally discussion said here yesterday. .They viewed that there is no way, but to create public awareness about aspects of planned family and that is very important for freeing the nation from the curse of poverty and hunger besides attaining economic emancipation.
Divisional and district offices of the Department of Family Planning organized the discussion in the conference hall of Family Welfare Visitors Training Institute (FWVTI) in observance of the World Population Day-2014. “Investing in Young People” was the main theme of the day.With divisional director of the Department of Family Planning SM Zahedul Karim in the chair, Additional Commissioner of Rajshahi division Munir Hossain and Additional Deputy Commissioner (Revenue) Dr Dewan Shahriar Firoj addressed the meeting as chief and special guests respectively.The speakers said the national development activities are being hampered due to the population burden and stressed the need for giving highest priority to the family planning activities.They laid emphasis on bringing all the fertile couples under the campaign programme through reaching the family planning message to them especially those who live in remotest and underprivileged areas.Highlighting the necessity of expediting the village-level family planning activities, the speakers underlined the need for giving top priority to motivating the fertile couples so that they could control their unwanted pregnancy through usingcontraceptives.
“If we can control the unexpected pregnancies in the greater perspective, country’s population could be reduced to a tolerablerate easily,” said Munir Hossain adding the field level workersshould be more careful and attentive to performing their respective duties.In his welcome speech, deputy director of the department Dr Amir Hossain gave an overview of the district level family planning activities and, so far, achievements.
Marking the day, nine institutions and individuals were awarded for their laudable contribution to the field. Earlier, a huge rally was brought out from the City Bhaban premises and that paraded some of the thoroughfares before being converged into the meeting venue.
