A social awareness programme on issues
related to "child marriage, child and women trafficking
and women's healthcare" was held on the Mahatma Gandhi
Primary School premises at Pilkhana in Cooch Behar-I block
yesterday.
The programme was organised by Cooch Behar College Extension
Activity Division in association with Guriahati-I gram panchayat
for the benefit of the people from below poverty line (BPL)
and uneducated women folk of the adjacent locality of the
college.
Among the distinguished personalities who spoke on the occasion
were Mr Siddhartha Chatterjee, additional district and sessions
judge, Mr Subhashis Ghosh, district civil judge (senior division),
Md Kazi Safiur Rahaman, chief judge of juvenile board, Md
Amzad Hossain, assistant district judge, Dr Snehashis Gupta,
gynaecologist of MJN Hospital, Mr Alokesh Dutta Roy, senior
advocate, Prof Bishnu Prasad Mukherjee, teacher-in-charge
of Cooch Behar College, Dr Anjali Mukherjee, reader of Cooch
Behar College and Mr Partha Sarathi Deb, member of Cooch Behar-I
panchayat samity.
The additional district and sessions judge, Mr Siddhartha
Chatterjee, said that population explosion occurs due to child
marriage, and, as a result the future generation would be
physically and mentally ill.
"At the time of marriage, a girl should be matured both
physically and mentally. Due to the high sex ratio difference
in West Bengal the women are being trafficked to other states
where sex ratio is lower. These women are finally being sold
to the brothels. The ill-motivated people come to the villages
and they either marry girls of poor families or allure them
for job in other states," Mr Chatterjee, said.
He suggested that the unknown people, whenever found in a
village, should be photographed. "One should try to get
the actual addresses of them and collect information from
their addresses before such marriages. Side-by-side the local
authorities should be informed. The awareness among the people
is the best way to tackle such problems," he said.
The other three judges also spoke about the dangers like child
marriage and women trafficking. They also informed the gathering
regarding the various legal aid schemes of the government
and how the people could take help from the district legal
aid authority. Advocate Mr Alokesh Dutta Roy requested the
people to take help of the panchayats, government officials,
teachers and other NGOs.
Eminent gynaecologist Dr Snehashis Gupta said that about 10-million
mothers die every year in the world at the time of pregnancy
or at the time of delivery. Ninety percent of such women belong
to the under-developed countries.
He emphasised that every pregnant mother should go for medical
check-up at least four times before delivery and they could
avail such facilities at government health centres and hospitals.
The awareness among the people could make the mother to carry
and give birth to healthy babies for our future generation,
he said.
Dr Anjali Mukherjee of Cooch Behar College called up the women
community to wake up and aware against such evils of the society
because women themselves are the victims and they alone have
to bear the troubles.
Prof Bishnu Prasad Mukherjee, the teacher-in-charge of Cooch
Behar College, emphasised on the need of educating the people.
Among the people who attended the programme, ninety percent
were women belonging to poorer and minority community of the
locality of Pilkhana area.
Dr Pankaj Kumar Debnath, one of the designated officers of
the Extension Activity Programme of Cooch Behar College, conducted
the entire programme. He thanked all for the success of the
programme. He praised Mr Partha Sarathi Deb, member of Cooch
Behar-I panchayat samity for his active and sincere co-operation.
The college teachers, students, non-teaching staff, members
of local gram panchayat and the joint programme officer of
extension activity, Prof Subhashis Bhattacharjee also took
active part in the programme.
Courtesy: The Statesman |
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