An Experience about the Living Conditions of Street Children in Dhaka City, Bangladesh

Children are the greatest asset for a country. The future of a nation depends on them. But a large number of children live at street in Bangladesh. This number of street children is increasing in  this country day by day due to poverty, natural calamities, epidemic, political instability etc. These floating children are being away from normal human development those who are victims of various oppressions, exploitations and deprivations. So, adequate, insightful and reliable studies are required for a desirable change in the lives of these children. This study has been conducted through sample survey and it would be treated as a guide line to the govt. in order to determine the problems and indicate the solving measures of street children in respect of their living conditions in Dhaka city. Keywords: Living Conditions, Street Children, Dhaka City

Situation of Slum’s Children in Dhaka City, Bangladesh: A Sample Survey

Impact of industrialization and urbanization, the whole social system has changed sharply. This industrial revolution also does more critical to the urban people, especially to the slum dwellers .The high birth rate of mega city Dhaka has introduced a main problem now these days. As a result of tremendous birth rate, slums are increased drastically. In fact poverty, class discrimination, lack of equal opportunity and natural disasters are the terms for making the slum life miserable as well as unbearable. Due to disability fulfillment of the basic needs, they have to fight always to survive themselves. Especially, the lives of slum children are more vulnerable. Though they are being considered as the next generation of the country, future prime of the state, as well as doctor, leader, engineer, the most valuable resource of the state respectively, they have not gotten their basic needs which are pragmatic thing. To remain their existence, they have to do risk child labor from hand to mouth. In addition, they are brought out as neglected, illiterate, and destitute and they are not being socialized. Keywords: Slum areas, Industrialization, Dhaka city

Eve Teasing as a Social Problem: A Study on the School Girls in Dhaka City, Bangladesh

Eve teasing is being treated as a momentous problem in Bangladesh now a days. Now it is the most discussed despicable and brutal violation of human rights. Many students of schools and colleges are choosing the way to be suicided for this reason. Parents are becoming childless and the neighbors, classmates and faculties being schocked. Students of school and colleges even working women of growing age are not able to save themselves by any means from the terrific strike of it. This uncontrolled criminal action has become a normal thing in our society to uplift the head with the chage of time. Some abandoned and libidinous youngs continue such wrong, obscene, criminal mischief to ignore the harsh punishment in different areas. It is a tremendous result of dreadful decadence of our family tradition cherished for decades, education, compassion and values. This terrible disease is carrying our society to a disastrous eventuality gradually. So this study has been conducted through direct deep interviewing to select 20 girls students as sample by incidental sampling from different secondary schools situated at South City Corporation Area in Dhaka city in order to detect various causes related with eve teasing, identify its impact on social life and seek the solution of this problem considering significant the matter in overall perspective of national life. Keywords: Eve teasing, social problem, school girls, Dhaka city

Indigenous knowledge and globalisation in Bangladesh: NGOs’ capacity for social capital and community development

The thesis reflects on contemporary community development in Bangladesh within the context of competing streams of indigenous and global knowledge. It examines Bangladeshi non-government organisations (NGOs) and their capacities for social capital and community empowerment, with the view that a ‘new knowledge approach’ is needed to achieve ‘sustainable community development’. The framework is informed by qualitative research, and a number of qualitative data collection methods were employed, which aided a triangulation of perspectives. The research focuses on two communities (one urban, the other rural) from two NGOs in Bangladesh: Proshika and Practical Action Bangladesh (PAB). Data was obtained from two indigenous occupations: blacksmiths and goldsmiths. It initially transpired that there were problems within these communities, where NGOs’ capacities for social capital and community development were limited. It is suggested that a new approach to knowledge is needed, which considers community development as not simply economic development, but as a social sphere with its own way of thinking. This has several implications for the contributions of NGOs. This is in terms of the new knowledge being approached through the metaphor of the ‘middle ground’, which acts as a device to help conceptualise ‘a field of action’ between community life and policy processes. This provides a basis from which to take a critical view of concepts, such as social capital and community empowerment, in the context of globalisation. The thesis argues for the need to find a point of conjuncture between indigenous and global knowledge based development approaches in order to develop new theoretical coherence within development studies and community development theory

Demutualization: Pros and Cons for Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE)

The purpose of this study is to examine the implications of demutualization for Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). And this is done by examining the existing literature for the stock exchanges that have already been demutualised. The result of the study indicates that all benefits that go with demutualization are not applicable for Bangladesh. Rather the benefits are contingent upon some factors unique to Bangladesh. So in the process of demutualization the authorities concerned should focus on those factors from which optimum benefits can be derived. However, demutualization is not without risk. So along with benefits risk should be focused on so that appropriate policy can be formed that will ensure successful implementation of demutualization. This study is important to investors, academics and policy makers as it demonstrates what benefits demutualization will bring and what challenges it will create. Since demutualization is a very new concept in Bangladesh, the study extends the literature by demonstrating its pros and cons in the context of Bangladesh. Key Words: Demutualization, Mutual Organization, Corporate Governance