Demanding perpetuation of National Service Scheme. Unemployment location program celebrated in Kurigram.

 Saifur Rahman Shamim, Kurigram : 15.01.2023

 Unemployed youths held a sit-in program in Kurigram demanding the perpetuation of the National Service Scheme.

 Two thousand unemployed workers working in the National Service project took part in this location program at the college intersection of the district city on Sunday afternoon.

 Bangladesh National Service Parishad Kurigram district branch organized this program.

 In the program, they stood on both sides of the road from College Mor to Thana Mor and from in front of the post office to College Mor for about one kilometer and held this program for two hours.

 Bangladesh National Service Parishad Central President Atiq Hasan Raja, Kurigram District Branch President KM Ramzan Ali, General Secretary Md Maidul Islam, Nageshwari Upazila Branch President Ataur Rahman Raju and others spoke at this time.

 The speakers demanded that the national service project be made permanent in the poor district.

 Md. Asaduzzaman of Nageshwari Upazila of Kurigram said, “I have lost the age of government service while working in National Service.  I thought the National Service would be made permanent as the government had promised to provide jobs from home to home.  But when the two years were over, I became unemployed again.  In this situation, I have been living an inhumane life with my family for a long time.  I want National Service to be made permanent.

 In Kurigram district from 2010 to 2014, the National Service Program provided employment to about 38,000 unemployed youth.  Later, when the government stopped the National Service program, these workers became unemployed.