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'Change Yourself, Change Others'

Campaign buzzing with pledges to change

Staff Correspondent
Members of Prothom Alo Bandhusabha yesterday formed a human chain on the bank of the Bakkhali river in Cox's Bazar demanding immediate steps for excavation to save it which is about to die.
In separate programmes in Kushtia and Rangpur, people from all walks of life yesterday pledged to bring about positive changes in society. They also vowed to resist all evils and odds to establish durable peace.
Nurul Aziz, a schoolteacher and a resident of Kasturaghat, said the river had a relation with their hearts.
Kasturaghat, which is on the river bank, was once the main commercial hub of the city, but the place has now become insipid, lifeless and filthy, he said.
Abdul Kuddus Rana, Cox's Bazar regional chief of the Prothom Alo, said several thou-
sand fishing trawlers, passenger ships and launches transported through the river regularly, butit has now become a narrower lifeless ghat
A large shoal had emerged after the river bed was dried up with the earth of hill cutting, he said, adding that the shoal is being encroached by the land grabbers bit by bit
As the river had filled up with mud and debris, the city dwellers have to face waterlogging even in light shower, Rana added.
Chief of Cox's Bazar Paribesh Bachao Andolon, Principal Sharmin Reshmin, and Cox's Bazar Municipality Mayor Sarwar Kamal and Saiful Islam expressed their solidarity with the movement to save the lifeline of the town. • Due to filling up the river, the income of the municipality has been reduced and at a time at least seven lakh people’ have been facing suffering in transportation, said Sarwar.
Our Kushtia correspondent reports: Cross section of people gathered at a programme launched by the Prothom Alo on the Bijoy Ullash premises of Kushtia Municipality.
The vernacular daily started a countrywide forth-nightly campaign to encourage individuals to take a pledge to change the society since May 21 with the slogan 'Bodie Jao, Bodie Dao' (Change yourself, change others).
Our Rangpur correspondent adds: A large number of people here made a vow to build the nation a prosperous and developed one by keeping them above corruption and dishonesty. They also pledged for a knowledge-based nation.
Hundreds of people took part in the campaign for change on the local Shaheed Minar premises.
Cultural activists, ' educationists and civil society members spoke at the programme.