'Increase edn facilities for CHT children'
Civil society members at a seminar on child rights held at Bandarban Shishu Academy yesterday stressed on increasing educational facilities for children in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).
Organised by Shishu Academy, the seminar was presided by district women affairs officer Anjana Bhattcharya while it was attended by child specialists Dr Aung Sa Lu and Dr M Mozammel Haque, The Daily Shachitra Maitree Editor Prof Osman Goni and Shishu Academy district organiser Nargis Ahasan as special guests.
Academician Dr Shishir Mallik presented a key-note paper while journalist Monirul Islam Monu acted as moderator in the seminar.
Speakers urged for building institutional capacity in rural areas in the CHT region for ensuring a brighter future for children.
They disclosed that the literacy rate in CHT is much below than other regions of the country. The number of school dropouts is also higher in this region due to extreme poverty and illiteracy of parents of both tribal and non-tribal children. Ultimately, the dropouts engage themselves as child labour, they said.
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