Rural Development of Bangladesh.
Development of
Bangladesh means rural development. We know that our country is land of villages
and rivers. More than 80 percent of her people live in villages. So the
importance of villages in our body politic is great. The development of the
entire country depends on the welfare of this villages. So it is essential to
keep the villages in a flourishing condition.
Rural development has various aspects in Bangladesh. The most
important of them are agriculture, education, communication, sanitary and
health, cottage industries, fishery, co-operative societies community life etc.
Communication is essential for the development of the
villages. Our government has taken some practical measures with this end in
view. Many new roads have been constructed and many old roads and culverts have
been repaired. There are also some pucca roads. Now-a-days we see the buses,
auto rickshaws etc move on the pucca roads in the rural areas. Today farmers
are sending their products to and cities. It has been possible only because of
the improvement of the communication. But this is not enough. Means of
communication should be developed more.
Proverb goes, “Education is the backbone of nation.” Without
education cannot prosper in their life. Certainly education illuminates the
soul, broadens the outlooks of life, and dispels the darkness of ignorance.
Bangladesh is a poor country. About 85 percent of her population live in
village. A large amount of them do not know how to read and write. We cannot
reach the prosperity and progress until and unless we can remove the curse of
illiteracy from the lot of our people. Our government has put the top most significance
on education and paid due attention to this much talked problem. Our government
is determined to free the nation from curse of illiteracy within a very short
time. Thousands of educational institutions have been established to flood the
rural areas with the light of education.
Agriculture is the most important things of her economy. Because,
Bangladesh is agriculture dependent country. We know that about eighty percent
people are engaged in agriculture who live in villages. Even in this modern scientific
age our agriculture is very backward. But at present it is a very happy news
that our government has taken active steps and necessary measures for the
progress of agriculture, such as supplying the farmers with modern scientific
tools for cultivation, good seeds, fertilizer at a cheaper rate, agriculture
loans on easy terms and many other things, irrigation system has been improved.
Government has been adopted to control natural calamities.
The proverb goes, “Health is wealth.” People’s sound health
is the greatest blessing on any country. But we are far from this blessing. As
most of the peoples are illiterate, they have no knowledge of health and
sanitation. Most of the villagers are suffer from various diseases. They look
like skeleton. But this miserable condition is changing slowly. A lot of
hospitals, clinics, health centers and charitable dispensaries have been set up
in rural areas to ensure health facilities to the poor rural people.
Bangladesh also faces crisis of pure drinking water. People used
to drink water from rivers and ponds. This is a very dangerous problem. As a
result, they suffered from many water born diseases. Now-a-days every village
has at least one or more tube wells.
If our government try to engage our villagers the cottage industries
are revived and developed. They can earn a decent living from them. The cottage
industries can provide employment to a large number of people. Our unemployment
problem must be eradicate from our country. People are being developed through
co-operative schemes.
Poultry and livestock and fish cultivating can develop our
villagers. Government has paid the villagers to buy their essential things for
farm.
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