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In Sirajgong district (sadar, roygong&tarash area) the prejudices, misinterpretation of religious
norms, social barriers and drug addictions is predominant. Lack of awareness about the child marriage issue and lack of work-oriented & technical education or the youths are the causes. Therefore,
it is needed to organize anti-terrorism and anti-drug campaign in the area. It is also needed to take
steps to stop the child marriage and introduce work-oriented education system.
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In Mymensingh, Hajong community face a major challenge of extinction of their culture and
language. They have problem with education and employment opportunity. They have serious issue
relating to land grabbling. So, it has been recommended to address the issue relating to preserving
the culture and language of this ethnic group, to allocate quota for the education and employment of
Hajong community youths, and to establish a separate Land Commission for the plain land ethnic
community.
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The youth leader of Rabidas community from Gaibandha, stated that their community also faces
problem relating to land grabbing and losing their ancestor land. It has also been recommended to
establish a separate Land Commission for the plain land ethnic groups.
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The Hijra/third gender people are deprived from education due to the lack of awareness in the
family and the community. There is no protection for the sex-workers and their children. It has been
recommended that there should be awareness programme and to ensure education for the children of
the sex workers. A monitoring mechanism is needed in the educational institutions for the protection
of the sexual minorities.
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It is seen as an emerging challenge as the elderly people have special needs and require different
care-giving services. In Bangladesh there is no social welfare system for the elderly people, however, few private initiatives have been taken. It has been recommended to adopt some mechanism and
effectively implement for the protection of the elderly people.
4.3 NHRC Launches e-Filing System
This Year, NHRC
launches e-Filing for
the smooth and timelymanagement
of
official tasks. After
taking the responsibility of the Commission, the new Chairman Nasima Begum,
ndc took the initiative
of introducing e-filing
to all the officials and
staff of the Comission.
In this age of digitalization, e-filing system
is used for the timely management of works and by introducing this system the Commission will be
faster and more effective in maintaining office work.
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