Villagers pledge to maintain social harmony

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BSS, Rajshahi :
Villagers in six upazilas of the region pledged to maintain social peace and harmony in their respective communities.
After the social motivation, the villagers including ethnic and labor-class also pledged for making their localities free from any sorts of social and political conflicts, violence, terrorism and militancy. They forged social resistance to fight against terror attacks and militancy.
Participating in various motivational programmes and different types of folk songs and democracy fair, the villagers distributed posters and flipcharts focusing importance of maintaining peace and social harmony during the last two years. The villagers including political leaders imparted need-based training on how to establish dignity, security, diversity and social harmony for their coexistence peacefully.
Various issues like communal harmony, right to information for creating awareness, prevention of violence against women and quality improvement in primary education were discussed elaborately during the campaign. The Hunger Project Bangladesh (THPB) supported the activities in
association with its project styled “Peoples Against Violence in Election (PAVE)” with financial support of International Foundation for Electoral System, USAID and UKAID.
“We organized eight training programmes for the trainers and twelve
social harmony workshops for the target groups,” said Jakaru Islam, Field Coordinator of PAVE Project. Large number of people including political leaders joined the programmes expressing their solidarity to the government efforts to maintain social peace and harmony. Mohanpur Upazila Chairman Abdus Salam told BSS that responsive and positive role by all quarters is very important for maintaining peace and social harmony in the society.
He said the villagers have come together towards enhancing their level of confidence for ensuring equitable, inclusive and sustainable development in an effort to playing effective role as social watchdog.
The organized people have acquired knowledge on how to avert and mitigate the social and political conflicts and violence collectively.
Nibaran Chandra Barman, Officer-in-Charge of Charghat Model Police
Station, said the nation would get rid of terror attacks, conflicts and confusion if people of the society took a positive approach to establish peace and amity from their own position.
He said all sorts of militancy, terror-attacks, violence, crimes and other anomalies in the society could be reduced to a greater extent through only maintaining social and communal harmony everywhere.

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