& çâÌæÚUæð´ ·¤è ¥ôÚU Îð¹Ùæ ÁæÚUè ÚU¹ð´ ¥ÍæüÌ ¥ÂÙð ÜÿØ ÂÚU ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´Ð ãæÚU Ù ×æÙð´, €UØô´ç·¤ ·¤æ× ·¤ÚUÙð âð ¥æÂ·¤ô ©gðàØ ·¤è Âýæç# ãôÌè ãñ ¥õÚU ÁèßÙ ·¤æ ¹æÜèÂÙ ÎêÚU ãôÌæ ãñÐ ÖÜð ãè ÁèßÙ ×ð´ ç·¤ÌÙè Öè ·¤çÆÙæ§ü €UØô´ Ù ¥æ°, çÁ™ææâæ ¥õÚU ©ˆâæã ÕÙæ° ÚU¹ð´Ð ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´, ÜÿØ ã×ðàææ ¥æÂ·Ô¤ Âæâ ãôÌð ãñ´ çÁ‹ãð´ ÂæÙð ·Ô¤ çÜ° ÂýØæâ ¥æÂ ·¤Öè Öè àæéM¤ ·¤ÚU â·¤Ìð ãñ´Ð

Dowry seekers active in Rajbari: parents at stake

From Our Correspondent
RAJBAR1. Nov 25 : The demands for dowry by the bridegrooms have been creating ob stacles to the marriages of girls in four upazllas of the district.
According to reliable sources. there are about 10.000 unmarried young girls in Rajbarl Sadar. Goalunda. Pangsa and Bahakandi upazllas of the district. Most of the girls come from farmers’ families who are quite unable to fulfil the demands of bridegrooms.
It is to be mentioned here that the economic condition of the farmers has been deterlo rated due to regular floods, drought and cyclones which perish the standing crops. The increasing development tax, Khike of agricultural and
Inputs, fall tn the prices of cash crops, are also making the farmers of the district economically weaker. Moreover. the low Income-group of farmers are the worst victims of the sky-rocketing prices of the dally necessities
On the other hand, dowry demands of the bridegrooms are increasing day by day. it it Informed which is beyond the financial capacity of such farmers.
Farmer Karim Mondol is unable to get his daughter married for want of dowry amounting to Taka 20.000. One Hosneara Begum of village Bamonpara Informed this correspondent that her daughter committed suicide as she failed to arrange marriage for her daughters for want of dowry money
Inhuman torture on married girls for non-payment
factor tn the area. Sometimes the extent of torture compels the house wives to commit suicide
Different circles of the locality opined that government should take more steps to enforce the anti-dowry law to eliminate the curse of dowry.
TH patients ofriae
Another report says : The number of tuberculosis patients is on increase in Rajbarl district.
The existing arrangements for detection and treatment of these patients are quite inad equate
According to an official source, about 1200 tubercufo sis patients come for treatment to Faridpur and Rajbarl Sadar hospitals in 1989 Over 350 persons reported to a
clinic with chest complains, it is learnt.
Goalundo. Baltakandi and Pangsa upazilas are the most affected areas.
About 260 patients report to the outdoor at the hospital with different chest complains every month, it is informed. The only x-ray machine there is old and very often goes out of order for want of proper maintenance. It Is alleged.
The clinic, set up in 1962. cannot cope with the rush of TB patients coming from far flung areas of the two districts. The space of the cilnfc Is also Inadequate. Arrangements for
treatment of leprosy is in the clinic has aggravated the accommodation problems.
The TB clinic has now only one consultant who cannot attend all the patients.
A report from Dulai. Pabna adds: An workshop on anti-dowry campaign was held here recently by the Dulai Janakalyan Shangstha (Dulai peoples welfare organisation). The two-day workshop was sponsored by Dhaka Commu nlty Hospital.
The workshop was presided by Dr Qazi Qamruzzaman. Chairman. Dulai Janakalyan Shangstha (DJS). Nearly three
hundred male and women members of anti-dowry campaign participated the workshop. It was addressed by local Union Parlshad Chairman Shahjahan. Abdul Qader. local marriage registrar. Imams of local mosques. Golam J^asul Headmaster of a local school and Barkat Baku!. Director of DJ&
On the second day a health camp was conducted by the physicians of Dhaka Community Hospital. Several hundred people of the locality were treated by the visiting doctors and also free medicines were distributed among them.