Discussion focuses on improving condition of Dalits in Nilphamari

NILPHAMARI, Mar 20: Speaker in a discussion meeting called for improving the living and overall condition of marginalised people known as Dalits who are untouchables of the society. Such segment of people comprise cleaners of human excrement, cobbler, dom and so on who constitute two percent of the total population of the country.
The speakers mentioned that such people do not get equal rights in the society that include education, health care, housing, employment opportunity and so on. They are even obstructed in taking food in hotels and restaurants along with the other.
They are hated and tormented intensely, live in segregated homes from the society and deprived of honor as a human being which must be redressed, mentioned the speakers.
Arranged by two NGO named Bangladesh Rural Improvement Foundation (BRIF) and Doridro Bimochon Sangstha (DBS) was held in the office room of BRIF on Monday.
Presided over by Mominul Hoque, president of BDS, the meeting was attended also by representatives of some other NGOs such as Non-mainstream Marginalised Communities Foundation, Networking for Inclusion and Employment of Dalit, Adibasi in the North-West of Bangladesh, Remove Inequality and Generate Equal Rights for the Tormented Society, Service Energy for Rural People's Rights and local elite.
Those who participated in the discussion include prof A T M Mostofa, Prof. Gokul Chandra Pal, Dalit leader Sobi Rani Das, Meghu Ram Bashfor, Jyoti Rani Bashfor and BRIF President Ahsan Habib and other.

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