Dinajpur Correspondent:

The local administration here formally declared four unions under the district’s Birganj Upazila free from child marriage and one union free from child labour.

The child marriage-free unions are Mohanpur, Palatpur, Nijpara and Sujalpur while Sujalpur union is free from child labour.

The declaration was made on Friday by Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Md. Tanvir Ahmed at an event at the Shalban Community Center auditorium at the upazila.

The Dinajpur Birganj Upazila Women and Children Affairs Department, in collaboration with the Upazila Administration and World Vision Birganj AP organised the event.

Terming child marriage and child labor as social diseases, Tanvir Ahmed called upon everyone to jointly build resistance against those.

“It would be possible to eradicate child marriage and child labor from the country by creating mass awareness among the people,” he hoped.