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Jaldhaka free from child marriage

Friday, 26 December 2014



A BSS report says: Marriage registrars and Imams at an advocacy meeting held today at Jaldhaka upazila parishad auditorium in Nilphamari district vowed for freeing the upazila from the social curse of child marriage.
The Jaldhaka upazila administration and Upazila Women Affairs Department jointly organised the advocacy meeting on 'Prevention of Child Marriage' for the marriage registrars and Imams of the upazila with the assistance of Plan Bangladesh.
Jaldhaka Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Ahsan Habib attended the advocacy meeting as the chief guest with Upazila Women Affairs Officer Shameem Talukder in the chair.
Jaldhaka upazila Vice-chairman Abdul Wahed Bahadur, Project Coordinator of Plan Bangladesh Paban Malo, union parishad chairmen Shamsul Haque, Kohinuzzaman Litan, Abdul Latif Kazi and Asaduzzaman Imam Nurullah, addressed, among others.