1.reinvigorate( পূনরুজ্জীবিত করা) : To give new life or energy, impart strength vigor or vitality, stimulate, energize
2. Implementation( প্রয়োগ) :carrying out, invocation, execution, enforcement
3. policy( নীতি): plan or course of action, guiding principal,
4.Emulate: ( অনুকরণ করা, সমকক্ষ হতে চেষ্টা করা to try to be like (someone or something you admire), Imitate, simulate
5.progress( উন্নতি) : improvement, betterment, development, headway
6.fertility rate( উর্বরতার হার/জন্মহার): the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
7.Contraception( জন্মনিয়ন্ত্রণ) :birth control by the use of devices (diaphragm or intrauterine device or condom) or drugs or surgery, Family planning
8.dropouts ( ঝরে পড়া, স্কুল বন্ধ করে দেয়া, কোন সামাজিক ব্যাবস্থা থেকে সরে যাওয়া) : One who quits school,One who has withdrawn from a given social group or environment
9.Consequence ( ফলাফল, পরিণাম, কোনকিছুর ফলস্বরূপ ঘটা) : effect, result, upshot, outcome, aftermath
10.appear( মনে হওয়া, সামনে আসা) : Seem, loom, materialize, to come into sight or view
11.backseat( নিম্ন অথবা নিকৃষ্ট অবস্থানে): an inferior position
12. lying vacant ( ফাকা পড়ে থাকে)
13.wonder( বিস্ময়, আশ্চর্য) : Amazement, astonishment
14.stagnant( স্থবির, নিশ্চল) : not flowing
: not active, changing, or progressing
15.preventive( প্রতিরোধী) : precautionary, safe guard
16.adopt( গ্রহণ করা) : embrace, espouse
17.attain( অর্জন করা, পৌছানো) : gain as an objective; achieveTo come to or arrive at, as through movement, growth,
To succeed in a directed effort, process, or progression:
18. imperative ( প্রয়োজনীয়, জরুরী) : urgent, essential
19.remote( দুরবর্তী) : far away, distant,aloof
20. rural( গ্রাম্য) : pastoral, Shepherd,
21.attended( অংশগ্রহণ করা)
22.involve( যুক্ত হওয়া, সংশ্লিষ্ট হওয়া) : to engage as a participant
23.convey( বয়ে নিয়ে যাওয়া, হস্তান্ত্র, প্রকাশ করা) : : to take or carry from one place to another, to make (something) known to someone
24. infotainment( কোন বাস্তব কিছুকে আনন্দদায়ক ভাবে প্রচার করা) broadcasting or publishing that strives to treat factual matter in an entertaining way, often by dramatically reenacting or fictionalizing real events.
এবার পড়ি
January 28, 2016
EDITORIAL
Family planning stuck
Reinvigorate implementation of policy
There was a time when Bangladesh’s national family planning policies were a role model for other countries to emulate. That was then; today the situation is slightly different. According to experts attending the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP), there has been no progress in family planning for the last four years. The total fertility rate has remained at 2.3, i.e. every woman giving birth to 2.3 children per year. This data remains unchanged since 2011. Although there are both temporary and permanent methods of contraception, the high rate of dropouts amongst women leads to some 1.3 million unwanted pregnancies every year. These have physical, psychological and economic consequences.
Family planning programmes appear to have taken a backseat at policy level. With nearly half the 1,200 family planning and welfare officers’ posts under the Directorate General of Family Planning lying vacant for ten years, it is a wonder that we have managed to keep fertility rates stagnant. Which preventive measure will be adopted to attain best results is a decision for the Ministry of Health. However, it is imperative that we recruit the necessary medical personnel so that the populace living in the remote and rural areas of Bangladesh can be attended to. It is also necessary to involve mass media again to help convey messages in the form of infotainment about family planning and also not to reduce the minimum marriageable age for women if we want to reduce the fertility rates in the country.
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