Load-shedding cripples normal activities, people want govt action immediately

Power outage has not only been disrupting production in mills and factories and affecting trade and commerce but also making the life of thousands of people in Moulvibazar miserable.

The HSC examinees in particular have been bearing the major brunt of the frequent load-shedding .

People are frustrated with the early load-shedding this year and they want the newly elected government to improve the power situation this summer. ‘Frequent load-shedding has already begun at the fag end of the winter this year. We are extremely frustrated as the situation is worsening day by day,’ said Emdad Hossein, a resident of Mohammadpur in the capital.

‘We hoped that the situation would be different this season after the new government took office. In fact the load-shedding has increased this season and we are worried about what will happen in the peak summer,’ said Anwar, a retired official of the Water Development Board, adding that they were facing 2-3 hours of load-shedding a day, each time for one hour.

Rahela Begum, housewife of Bizli Moholla very anxiously seating infront of her two child's reading teble while electricity has gone

Rahela Begum, a housewife on Bizli Moholla, said that her daughter, an HSC examinee from the Mohammadpur Girls College, was facing difficulties in studying for his exams because of load shedding. Also her son going to admit his school exam facing a big problem with loadsheding.

‘Every year we face load shedding but all the governments have ignored the plight of the people without taking any steps to give us relief,’ she said.

Kalu, a barber at Famous Saloon at the city’s Tajmahal Road, said that during the load-shedding in the evening hours he faced a dearth of customers. ‘If there is four to five hours of load-shedding a day, especially during the evening hours, it is very difficult to do my job under the candlelight. During day hours in summer people do not want to come to the barber shop if there is no power,’ he said.

Officials of the Power Development Board and the Power Division claimed that the power situation in the last few days had not worsened that much compared to the same period in the last year. Two power plants of 360MW and 210MW are now out of order so, we are facing power shortage. A proposal to this effect has been sent to the higher authorities he said.

He said that the power situation could not be improved overnight as it needed time to increase power generation. ‘The government definitely has a plan to improve the power situation. But we are concerned about the gas shortage,’ he said.

Lets Raise our Folk Songs worldwide

The Music Nepal, a pioneering Musical Company in Nepal is hosting “The International Folk Music Festival 2008″ in the capital from November 5, 2008. Five different countries are participating at the programme including Norway, India, Malawi, Palestine and South Africa who will star alongside Nepali artistes representing five development regions of the country. 

It’s a great platform to understand each other and share among with their opinion. But why not this practice is here in Bangladesh? We have so many folk singers as well as folk musician. We have great Baul philosopher Firoj Shah, Lalon, Hason Raja, Baul Shah Abdul Karim and other great Baul singers. But we can’t thing about them and we can’t thing this way like what Nepal doing.

If we can arrange such a festival then it can help to raise our rich folk songs and singers worlwide.

 

Street Childs are rapidly growing up in Dhaka

The number of street children are now indanger

Street Childs are rapidly growing up in Dhaka

 

 

 

 

The street childs in Bangladesh basically in Dhaka city are rapidly growing up and this is a sign of obstracle to development. The fastest growing up population country is Bangladesh now developing in many ways but people are not yet conscious about education. Most of the illeterate people are causing unplaned birth. Even they have no any idea about family planing and access of it.

 

Basically the poor or labour class people who lives in slam area are creating this type of problem. Not only they create it in their family but also sometimes they create it by illecit sex. Some family also broaken sometimes so it also the cause of making children as a street or homeless child.

 

It seems very pathetic that this childrens are suffering a lot. They have no any home to live, have not enough food or wear even they have no any access of medical fascility and education. So it creates a large illeterate community who will be the leader in future.

 

There are so many child are now working in defferent places and they sometimes treted and tourchering. They have no any specific way to living in general, they having a terrific life to living.

Consumerism creates a new society

Consumerism creates a new society

Modern consumption is mediated by market relations and takes the form of the consumption of commodities. The consumer’s access to consumption is largely structured by the distribution of material and cultural resources (money and taste), which itself is determined in crucial ways by market relations above all the wage relation and social class.

 

From a Marxist perspective, it is the wage-relation (not industrial mass production), it is capitalist relations of production (not its technical forces) that produce the consumer. Consumer culture is incompatible with the political regulation of consumption that suppresses the market. It does not arise in non-capitalist societies. This is why a society-wide solution to the problem of consumerism is not going to occur through personal or cultural politics. At this stage of late consumerism, our best bet is legislative action.

 

At this time compact disc players, digital media, personal computers, and cellular phones, all began to integrate into everyday lifestyle in all over the world. A large change in World’s culture has subsequently occurred “a shift away from values of community, spirituality, and integrity, and toward competition, materialism and disconnection.” Companies and corporations have realized that rich consumers are the most attractive targets for marketing their products. The upper class’ tastes, lifestyles, and preferences, trickle down to become the standard, which all consumers seek to emulate. The not so well off consumers can “purchase something new that will speak of their place in the tradition of affluence”.

 

A consumer can have the instant gratification of purchasing a high-ticket item that will help improve their social status. In the industrial workplace, employees faced long hours often twelve or more per day in sweaty, dangerous conditions. Pay was low, and employees had little recourse against employers, who protected their own pocketbooks rather than their workers. Industry owners felt no obligation to recompense employers injured on the job or the families of workers killed in workplace accidents. To be a consumer is to make choices, this exercise of choice is in principle unconstrained.

 

The freedom of consumer culture is defined in a modern and liberal way; consumer choice is a private act. Two senses of meaning of this: in the positive sense, it occurs within a domain of the private, which is ideologically declared out of bounds to public intervention, social and political authority in the negative sense; it is restricted to the household, mundane domesticity, the world of private relationships A critical remark is that in becoming ‘free’ as consumer we barter away power and freedom in the workplace or in the political arena in exchange for more private contentment.

 

Consumer culture is often identified with the idea of mass consumption. Market relations are anonymous and in principle universal. The idea that consumer culture serves a general public also promotes a more positive idea that it embraces ‘everyone’. We are all formally free and equal, unconstrained in our choices by legally fixed status or cultural prohibitions.

 

Yet, it is also felt to be universal because everyone must be a consumer, this particular freedom is compulsory. If there is no principle restricting who can consume what, there is no principled constraint on what can be consumed: all social relations, activities and objects can in principle be exchanged as commodities.

 

Basically consumerism is that, whatever is supplied, being consumed this issue we the people of consumer society can not omit. Everyone have their own choices they can select their own choice but they convince by those people whom actually set the agenda for the consumer. Because of advertisement and because of mimic the products. So, all the consumer societies are driven by the manufacturer or the suppliers.

 

Source: “The Rebel Sell”- by Joseph Heath & Andrew Potter, Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.

Water getting spoilt

Water are getting useless by chemical waste dumping

As huge amount of  wastes are dumping to the water, the water become polluted in such a way that the color of the water has changed. So many people are using these spoilt water to fill up their daily need.

Filming of Bangshai River

Filming by MSJ Students of ULAB

MSJ student of ULAB went to Savar for rechearch on environment pollution over their. The Bangshai River on of the affected area of that area now polluted by man made causes. MSJ students are captured whats going on over their and tried to find out the cause, effect and how it will possible to reduce. They interviewed some of the boatman, fishermen and some of the villagers who are the victim of environment pollution. They told lots of things about pollution to the students. Students captured all the things by their video and still camera. They will use these footage to make website blog publishing and making documentary.

Unplaned waste management polluted Bangshai River

Unplaned waste management polluted Bangshai River

The pipeline and drain from the industries are using for throughing waste and useless products to the river water and all these filth things are spoiled the water. As the people are using the river water, it harms them as a result of it they sufer from different types of skin deseases and also some other problem occured to the environment.

Fishermen are redundant.

 

The number of Workless Fishermen are not capable to maintan their everyday need

 The Fishermen are jobless at Hajipara village in Savar because lack of fish into River. They claimed that from the time of  flourising the industeies to there area, they are getting less fishes from before. They all worked on the Bangsai river for fishing but now there is no fish to fishing. They always living with family need and spending strugle livelyhood. The argue to government to take care of that area.

Dying River impediment of cultivation at Savar

 

Rivers are Dying at Savar

 Unpland urbaniation is the main cause of River Dying. SomIt refer to a big ecological embalance as well as its hindrance of irrigation system in Savar area.

Man-made pollution

 

Seurage are cause of pollution

Man-made pollution

People are sometimes create water pollution, In the absence of adequate controls many human activities have the potential to cause pollution of water. Untreated sewage introduces purefying organic matter and, in particular, bacteria and pathogenic microorganisms. Farming often causes soil manure and organic debris to be washes into streams, rivers and lakes. Mining may contribute harmful contamination and fine suspended matter to water courses. Chemical manufacture may produce effluents containing toxic substances which, if unregulated, can cause taste and odour and kill off the natural life in the rivers.