Youth’s role important to ensure peace, harmony

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RAJSHAHI, Dec 23, 2017 (BSS) – Speakers at a discussion here today said that the role of youth is very important towards ensuring and maintaining peace and harmony everywhere in the society for the sake of its substantial and sustainable development.

They underscored the need for making the youth enriched with the issue so that they can play due role in this regard.

“We should work together for building our motherland as ‘Sonar Bangla’ as dreamt by Father of our Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,” the youth opined.

The observation came at the closing session of a three-day training course for the youth titled “Pluralism and Social Harmony” held at Cockeye Jar restaurant in the city. A total of 36 youth joined the training.

Regional office of the Hunger Project Bangladesh organised the programme in association with “Promoting Democratic Inclusion and Governance through Youth (PRODIGY)” project and British Council.

Ward Councilor of Rajshahi City Corporation Md Kamruzzaman, political leader Tanzin Hossain Dulal, Regional Coordinator of the Hunger Project Shashanka Boron Roy, PRODIGY Field Coordinator Subrata Kumar Paul and its Programme Officers Joynal Abedeen and Shamsul Alam, among others, addressed the meeting.

The discussants said the nation would get rid of conflicts and confusion if the people of the society as well as the state machineries take a positive approach to establish peace and amity from their own position.

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 in the meeting.