{"id":12298,"date":"2025-07-27T00:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=12298"},"modified":"2025-07-27T00:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:29:09","slug":"bnp-will-focus-on-ending-child-labour-mirza-fakhrul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=12298","title":{"rendered":"BNP will focus on ending child labour-Mirza Fakhrul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ET Desk<\/strong>: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Saturday (July 26) said if elected by the people&#8217;s vote, his party will attach highest importance to the elimination of child labour across the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBNP will focus on ending child labour and ensuring those children return to education and lead healthy lives,\u201d he said while speaking at a programme joining virtually.<\/p>\n<p>ESDO organised the event at the Zainul Abedin Hall in Thakurgaon\u2019s Gobindanagar.<\/p>\n<p>Fakhrul Islam acknowledged the challenges of eradicating child labour in Bangladesh due to the country\u2019s economic conditions, but praised ESDO\u2019s grassroots initiative in Thakurgaon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the difficulty, ESDO has taken commendable steps, and I thank them. Their achievement deserves national recognition,\u201d he said, adding \u201cI believe this success can be replicated nationwide to eliminate child labour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event, aimed at showcasing ESDO\u2019s field-level experiences in child labour prevention, was presided over by ESDO Executive Director Dr. Muhammad Shahid Uz Zaman.<\/p>\n<p>Other notable speakers included Labour and Employment Secretary AHM Shafiquzzaman, Cabinet Division (Coordination and Reform) Secretary Zaheda Parveen, Divisional Commissioner, Rangpur,\u00a0 Shahidul Islam and Joint Convenor, National Child Labour Monitoring Committee Advocate Salma Ali also spoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ET Desk: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Saturday (July 26) said if elected by the people&#8217;s vote, his party will attach highest importance to the elimination of child labour across the country. \u201cBNP will focus on ending child labour and ensuring those children return to education and lead healthy lives,\u201d he said while speaking at a programme joining virtually. ESDO organised the event at the Zainul Abedin Hall in Thakurgaon\u2019s Gobindanagar. Fakhrul Islam acknowledged the challenges of eradicating child labour in Bangladesh due to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12299,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12298\/revisions\/12299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}