RAJSHAHI, Jan 20, 2019 (BSS)- Villagers have come together to free their
respective villages in Nezampur Union Parishad (UP) under Nachole Upazila
from the curse of terrorism and militancy.
Awareness is created among the villagers for resisting the crimes after
getting training and motivation from both government and non-government
entities concerned.
UP Chairman Aminul Haque said the villagers were given ideas about
demerits of deadly consequences of terrorism and militancy through various
community-level motivational campaigns and programmes.
He said the villagers irrespective of age, sex, profession and faiths
got messages of how to prevent various anti-social activities like terrorism
and militancy.
“We are pledged bound to supplementing the government efforts of
freeing the society from the curse of terrorism and militancy collectively,”
Aminul Haque asserted.
Religious leader Turab Ali said the people realized that Islam is a
religion of peace. Islam never supports terrorism and militancy.
Upazila Chairman Abdul Kader said various motivational programmes
including school session, community session and folk-show (gambhira) were
arranged for making the youths and people vocal and active against the
crimes. The programmes are being adjudged as very much effective to attain
the cherished goal.
He said the awareness-raising programmes are being conducted with
intervention of a project titled ‘Countering Radicalisation of Religious
Ideologies through Edutainment and Youth Engagement’.
Agriculture Sustainable and Socio-Economic Development Organization
(ASSEDO) has been implementing the project in the Nezampur UP areas since
September last with financial support from High Commission of Canada in
Bangladesh.
“We have brought 12,870 people comprising 8,500 parents or caregivers,
4,250 students and other youths and 120 teachers, faith leaders and other
leaders of influence under training and awareness programmes,” said Rabiul
Alam, Executive Director of ASSEDO.
In all the programmes, the participants took oath of making the
government efforts for freeing the country from the curse of terrorism and
militancy a total success.
More than 15,000 other people both male and female get benefits from the
project indirectly, he added.
Upazila Chairman Kader sought cooperation of the project implementing
agency to expand the campaign to all the upazila areas so that the people
could be brought under awareness and motivation on the issue.