Staff Reporter, Rangpur :
In the presence of thousands of people, Rajarhat has been primarily declared as the second Upazila in Kurigram as child marriage free on Monday. The declaration event held Monday at the Helipad premises where the State Minister of Primary and Mass Education Md. Zakir Hossain gave this declaration as the Chief Guest through video conference.
The Upazila Administration of Rajarhat organized this event jointly with Plan International Bangladesh as part of the ongoing project Building Better Future for Girls (BBFG) funded by Embassy of Sweden and implemented by RDRS Bangladesh.
Member of Parliament of Kurigram -2 Ponir Uddin Ahmed was present as special guest while Deputy Commissioner of Kurigram Muhammad Rezaul Karim chaired the declaration ceremony.
Among other guest Additional Superintend of Police, Kurigram, District Secondary Education Officer Md. Shamsul Alam, Mohila Vice-Chairman of Upazila Parishad of Rajarhat Yesmin Begum, Project Manager of BBFG project of Plan International Bangladesh Nazrul Islam Chowdhury and Head of Development Programme of RDRS Abdul Samad were present the event.
At the beginning of the event Upazila Nirbahi Officer Nura Tasnim of Rajarhat Upazila shared information on current context on child marriage of Rajarhat. Later, discussion session was held where the discussants shared the objective of the declaration, present situation of the Upazila and future action plan. The event aimed to create mass awareness on stopping child marriage as well as to advocate for the activation of different committees in Upazila, Union, and Community level to prevent child marriage, reduce the rate of child marriage and finally declare the Upazila as child marriage free.
