The womenfolk, half of the country’s total population, should play a vital role in building a society free form militancy and gender discrimination to accelerate women empowerment.
The opinion came at a women rally organised by the District Information Office (DIO), Rangpur at Soyar union parishad premises under Taraganj upazila recently to inform about the Prime Minister’s 10 special development initiatives and preventing militancy and terrorism.
More than 400 women, including adolescents, students, housewives and girls, and local community leaders, public representatives, professionals, journalists and religious leaders, participated in the rally.
Taraganj Upazila Nirbahi officer Zilufa Sultana attended the rally as the chief guest with Senior District Information Officer Humayun Kobir in the chair. Soyar union Chairman SM Mohiuddin Azam addressed the rally as special guest.
Humayun Kobir narrated about the tremendous successes achieved by the government in education, health, women development, poverty alleviation, digitisation, power and in other sectors during the past eight years and future development plans.
“The government has achieved successes in preventing child marriage, ensuring maternal and child health care, safe pregnancy, maternity, sanitation, birth registration, breast feeding, vaccination of babies, hygiene of adolescents,” he said.
The DIO said that the present government re-launched the community clinics to ensure health services for rural people, sub-stipends for female students and other programmes for development of children and women.
The chief guest said that gender discrimination and social inequality among the communities showed marked reduction in recent years following successful implementation of various government programmes.
She called upon the women community for active participation in eliminating militancy and terrorism from the society in building a middle income nation by 2021 and developed country by 2041 as envisioned by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
