Child labor: A curse of Bangladesh

Child labor is a common problem in Bangladesh now a days. Almost 5 million children are working in various sector such as garments factory, automobile workshop, restaurant, house maid etc. Among them 17% work in the rural area and 83% in the urban area. The rules or definition of child labor is not same all around the world. It varies from country to country, culture to culture. In Bangladesh the minimum age of a children to be engaged in physical work is 14 years but that rule is hardly followed. There are some reasons behind the problem…

First problem is POVERTY. Bangladesh is a poor country with 16 crore population. But more than 30 % people of the country lives under poverty line. So the parents find it difficult to maintain their family by themselves. So when their children are about 5 or 6 they send him/her to earn money.

Second problem is Education. There is a close relationship between education and child labor. A recent study found that almost 50% of the child laborer do not attend school at all. A very small amount of children continue both school and work. So if they were influenced to go to school the number of child laborer would must be lessened.

Another problem is GARMENTS FACTORY. At present Bangladesh is the 2^nd  garments exporter of the world. It is contributing greatly in the economics of the country. Most of the workers employed in this garments are women and girl. So the number of child laborer increased.

Though it is not an easy task to eradicate this problem easily but our Government has taken some necessary steps to get rid of this problem as soon as possible.

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Apple Watch

Apple is one of the top ranked tech giant of the world. They produced some electronic gadgets like cell phone, tab, ipod, etc. Recently they have introduced another product which is generally a watch named “Apple Watch”. It is a smart watch which is able to perform fitness tracking and provide health related  information via iOS operating system.

 The device was first announced on September 9, 2014. It is usable with iphone 5 ( ios 8.2 or later). It works through wireless connections like Bluetooth and wifi. This incredible watch has 38 models and 2 case sizes 38 mm and 42 mm. The device contains an extraordinary display which is able to distinguish between a intentional touch and force touch. The watch is charged by inductive charging and goes to power saver mode when the charge is less then 10 %. User can use it for more 72 hours in this state. When it is charged again it will turn back into normal mode again.

So we can say it is really an extra ordinary stuff from apple with mind blowing features.

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Tourist spot of Bangladesh

Bangladesh is a country of great natural beauty. The Almighty has blessed it with many natural gift and resources. It is a country of scenic beauty. There are some place in the country which are worth visiting.

Coxs bazar: Coxs Bazar is the longest sea beach in the world. It is in the southern part of the country.  Its length is 125 km and it has gentle slope which is quite amazing! The beauty of the beach is mind blowing. One can enjoy sun rise and sun set from the beach. Various types of fish are also available here which are very delicious! Another attraction of coxs bazar is Inani beach which is really a magnificent place. It is a stony beach.  Ramu, Himchori etc are other tourist spot of coxs bazar.

Saint Martin Island: Saint Martin island is  another coral island in Bangladesh. It is situated in the north east part of Bangladesh. There is no modern civilization facility but in the cottages near the sea you will feel a splash of refreshment.  It is famous for its coconut tree. One can enjoy fresh coconut juice here.  You can also have sea fish here. The best time to visit the island is February to October.

Sundarban: It is one of the largest mangrove forest of the world which is almost 140000 hector. It is also called the border or Bangladesh. The forest is full of many complex network of tidal waves and salt tolerant trees. The main attraction of the forest is Royal Bengal Tiger. But it is a matter of sorrow that they are at the verge of extinction. There are almost 300 bird species and hundreds of various types of trees, indian python, crocodile, dolphin, Deer, monkeys etc. are seen in the forest.

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Hospitality of Bengali people

The people of bangladesh is actually very friendly to foreigners and they are also very curious about them.When they saw someone from another country they get interested to talk with them and ask about them.Sometimes they got awkward after hearing this kind of personal questions.But the bangladeshi people want to get close to them and share their feelings with them.The do this with no intention and want to behave friendly.

When the foreigners go the rural area they got the most hospitality from the people of rural area and they really like that.Cause those people are very simple in their lifestyle and they treat people like them.They share everything to them and introduce their lifestyle as simple as they lead.

Foreigners are our guest and its our duty to take care of them but its a shame for us that some fraud and greedy people take advantages of them and coloured us to them.We have to stop this and make our country  hospitable to them.

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STOP Violence against women

Now a days in Bangladesh violence against women is increasing in an alarming rate,Almost every day we see this happening.At morning when we open newspaper we see that there was a rape or harassment,or any kind of brutal incident which is included with women's.the brutality level is gradually increasing but no one is concern about that without some of our leading newspaper company.Even in some places victims family is also neutral cause they are afraid of the people surrounding them and social position.

But it can't be a solution and we can not let go this issue like that.If any one want to live in this society he/she has to protest against this ferocious crime.Cause one day his/her family could be a victim.


With mass people,the leading social awareness institution and the government they all should have to take strict step together and work with the victims and her family to give them proper support and help them at any kind of situation where it is needed.

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Micro credit operations to be uses friendly

The poor or extreme poor who take micro credit should be also allowed to do so at bearable or nominal rate of interest. But even the interest rates charged on publicly run micro credit programmers continue to be rather oppressive for their poor receives. No great difficulty is see in the way of the government lending to the poor at much lower rates of interest because the government should not be in the business of squeezing out under interest from the poor.

Disbursing credit to the poor to make big financial gains out of the same cannot be the aim of government which claims  to be on the side of reducing poverty.

The recommended lower rates of interest on micro credit should meet both the need of viably running the official micro credit operation while also meeting the intended objectives of there programmers. The NGO’s in many cases also charge high interest on micro credits provided by them.

They also need to be persuade to significantly decrease the interest they charge and ought to base their credit operations truly for the benefit and advantage of the poor and not for only making good profits out of such operations. Not with standing the increase in opportunities for the poor to be the beneficiary of small credits from institutional sources, the remain still the victims of private money lenders of “mahajans”(money lenders) also in many cases. Studies on micro credit showed that mahajan continue to be a big factor in the micro credit scene exploiting  the gaps in institutional Availability of credits. this indicates the importance of increasing the networks of institutional credit both by the government and NGO’s .

But such expansion of networks by them needs to be accompanied also by adequate lowering of the interest charged on the credits. It is also imperative to introduce laws and enforce them strictly to curb the activities of mahajans

who in many cases take interest as high as 300% or something near that figure.

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Rushing into the war

A hundred years ago, this week, over 1000 female peace activist gathered from around the world to call for an end to war. The extra ordinary meeting, Known as the international congress of  women, took place as world war 1^st raged across the globe and mark the formation of the women’s international league suffragist Dr. Aletta Jacobs. The event took place in the Netherlands because of its neutral position during 

world war 1^st.Two future nobel peace prize winner took part in the US delegation: Jane Addams, the co-founder of Hall House and the sociologist Emily Green Balch.

Another veteran former US defense secretary Chuck Hugel, Who served in Vietnam, said “It is interesting to me that many of those who want to rush this country into war and think it would be so quick and easy don’t know anything about war” he also said “They come at it from an intellectual Perspective vs having sat in jungles or foxholes and watched their friends get their heads blown off''

Politician start war and war is a distraction.

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