BSS, Rajshahi :
Speakers at a post-human chain discussion have underscored the need for forging social movement against corruption for freeing the nation from its curse besides building a prosperous Bangladesh.
They viewed community participation towards the anti-corruption campaign has become an urgent need for building a mass-opinion against the corruption.
District Administration and Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) jointly organised the discussion at Rajshahi College Auditorium here yesterday to mark the International Anti Corruption Day-2017.
Committee of Concerned Citizens (CCC), an inspired organisation of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), supported the event.
Various social and voluntary organisations like Sachetan, Supro, BLAST, Trinamool, Bangladesh Mohila Parishad, Partner, Barendra Unnayan Prochesta, Prip Trust, BELA, ACD, BRAC and PSTC joined the human chain and discussion programme.
Additional Commissioner of Rajshahi division Aminul Islam and Deputy Inspector General of Police of Rajshahi Range Khurshid Hussain addressed the discussion as chief and special guests respectively with President of Corruption Prevention Committee Yeahia Mollah in the chair.
Commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police Mahabubor Rahman, Deputy Commissioner of Rajshahi Helal Mahmud Sharif, CCC President Prof Abdus Salam, Principal of New Government Degree College Prof Jarjish Kadir, Director of ACC Abdul Aziz Bhuiyan and Superintendent of Police Muazzem Hossain also spoke.
Aminul Islam said the present government is very much positive against the social disease and emphasized the need for a concerted effort of all quarters to supplement the government efforts.
He also called for forging a social movement against the malpractice as it undermines economic development, increases poverty, exploitation and injustice, prevents good governance, accountability and transparency and creates social and political instability and insecurity.
Highlighting the laudable steps undertaken by the government in this regard, the other discussants mentioned importance should be given to forging a strong resistance against the corruption along with the corrupt persons.
Excavated ponds make poor villagers happy in Barind: After suffering a long, poor and marginalized families have started getting water from the excavated ponds in the water- stressed Barind areas at present.
Champa Tudu, 40, wife of Naren Tudu, of Radhanagar area under Gomostapur upazila, said a re-excavated pond has brought blessings for their five-member family.
“Earlier on, we had to fetch water from a deep-tube-well over one kilometer away for our daily household purposes,” said Champa Tudu, adding that recently, a derelict pond has been re-excavated with community participatory system removing the embarrassing situation for around 30 families.
There are special arrangements to bring rainwater from rooftops of the adjacent houses through pipeline for the pond. Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) Project extended financial and technical support to the pond re-excavation process.
With the same approach, some 109 ponds were either excavated or re- excavated in 115 drought-hit villages under 35 Union Parishads and four Pourasabhas in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj districts with the project intervention.
Number of the ponds beneficiaries is 37,488 people including 19,813 females. Around 2,652 ethnic minority families and 545 persons with special needs are also getting benefits from the ponds directly. The ponds were excavated and re-excavated only in the neglected and poverty-porn areas.
Speakers at a post-human chain discussion have underscored the need for forging social movement against corruption for freeing the nation from its curse besides building a prosperous Bangladesh.
They viewed community participation towards the anti-corruption campaign has become an urgent need for building a mass-opinion against the corruption.
District Administration and Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) jointly organised the discussion at Rajshahi College Auditorium here yesterday to mark the International Anti Corruption Day-2017.
Committee of Concerned Citizens (CCC), an inspired organisation of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), supported the event.
Various social and voluntary organisations like Sachetan, Supro, BLAST, Trinamool, Bangladesh Mohila Parishad, Partner, Barendra Unnayan Prochesta, Prip Trust, BELA, ACD, BRAC and PSTC joined the human chain and discussion programme.
Additional Commissioner of Rajshahi division Aminul Islam and Deputy Inspector General of Police of Rajshahi Range Khurshid Hussain addressed the discussion as chief and special guests respectively with President of Corruption Prevention Committee Yeahia Mollah in the chair.
Commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police Mahabubor Rahman, Deputy Commissioner of Rajshahi Helal Mahmud Sharif, CCC President Prof Abdus Salam, Principal of New Government Degree College Prof Jarjish Kadir, Director of ACC Abdul Aziz Bhuiyan and Superintendent of Police Muazzem Hossain also spoke.
Aminul Islam said the present government is very much positive against the social disease and emphasized the need for a concerted effort of all quarters to supplement the government efforts.
He also called for forging a social movement against the malpractice as it undermines economic development, increases poverty, exploitation and injustice, prevents good governance, accountability and transparency and creates social and political instability and insecurity.
Highlighting the laudable steps undertaken by the government in this regard, the other discussants mentioned importance should be given to forging a strong resistance against the corruption along with the corrupt persons.
Excavated ponds make poor villagers happy in Barind: After suffering a long, poor and marginalized families have started getting water from the excavated ponds in the water- stressed Barind areas at present.
Champa Tudu, 40, wife of Naren Tudu, of Radhanagar area under Gomostapur upazila, said a re-excavated pond has brought blessings for their five-member family.
“Earlier on, we had to fetch water from a deep-tube-well over one kilometer away for our daily household purposes,” said Champa Tudu, adding that recently, a derelict pond has been re-excavated with community participatory system removing the embarrassing situation for around 30 families.
There are special arrangements to bring rainwater from rooftops of the adjacent houses through pipeline for the pond. Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) Project extended financial and technical support to the pond re-excavation process.
With the same approach, some 109 ponds were either excavated or re- excavated in 115 drought-hit villages under 35 Union Parishads and four Pourasabhas in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj districts with the project intervention.
Number of the ponds beneficiaries is 37,488 people including 19,813 females. Around 2,652 ethnic minority families and 545 persons with special needs are also getting benefits from the ponds directly. The ponds were excavated and re-excavated only in the neglected and poverty-porn areas.
