Live in field experience

(LFE report)

A STUDY OF LIVE IN FIELD EXPERIENCE ON THE CONTEXT OF BON-BEL-GORIA

NATOR, RAJSHAHI

By
A.K.M Baha Uddin

Khan
ID# 1110079
Group: 05
Section: 06
Assigned area: Bon-Bel-Goria

The LFE Report Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree - Bachelor of
Business Administration
INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY, BANGLADESH
11th October 2015

Acknowledgement

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I Mr. A.K.M Baha Uddin Khan have completed our survey on Bon-bel-goria
village, a micro unit of whole Live in Field Experience (LFE) Summer, 2015
survey under the supervision of our teacher and with my group member which was
performed in Natore, jointly organized by Independent University, Bangladesh and
Thengamara MohilaSabujSangha (TMSS) of Natore.
My staying at TMSS while performing our survey was amazing. I got all kind of
help from the organizing host institution and our LFE coordinators. Our teachers
were very friendly with us along with TMSS authority. My learning and experience
from the LFE would be very useful in my future career. For this reason, firstly I
would love to thank our LFE instructors for guiding us throughout the LFE.
We like to thank our vice chancellor Professor M Omar Rahman for giving us the
opportunity for realizing our roots. We thank Asst. Prof. Talim Hossainfor his
teachings on presents and village community, as well as shouldering our LFE
responsibility.
We would also like to thank our course coordinator Mr. Mustafa Chowdhury, Sariat
Rafa Khan, Mumtahina Islam and monitors for guiding us on how to make rapport
with the villagers and rural network analysis. They also guided us for preparing
better village maps
Thanks to all the staff of TMSS for taking good care of us and cooperate with us in
all those twelve days, thanks for guiding us during the survey in Bon-bel-goria
village. I am grateful to our three monitors for being beside us to complete our on
field and off field works. Thanks to the students of LFE Section: 06 for making it
an unforgettable experience and thanks for sharing information regarding LFE. I
would also love to thank whole Bon-bel-goria group for being so helpful during the
mapping session.
Last but not the least I would love to thank all the villagers of Bon-bel-goria for
being very friendly, cooperative and providing me the information I needed.
Letter of Transmittal
11th October, 2015
Asst. Prof. Talim Hossain
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School of Social Science and Humanities

Independent University Bangladesh
Bashundhara, Dhaka.
Subject: Letter of Transmittal for the assigned LFE report for summer 2015
Excellency Sir,
I, undersigned, would like to submit herewith the Live-in-Field Experience (LFE) Report. Upon
completion of LFE study in Bon-Bel-Goria village district Nator from 21th August 2015 to 1 st
September 2015 this report has been prepared.
Though, it was a hard job to perform, I prepared this report comfortably and spontaneously.
I tried my best to learn about the demography, geography, social condition and change, economy
and agriculture, the impact of seasonality on various aspects of agriculture, health and
environment, and the market and that serving the needs of the village.
Now we are fully prepared to submit the report to your opinion on work. While working for this
report, I have faced many hurdles and pleasant experiences and have tried my level best to
include all the necessary information. This experience will definitely help me in the near future
and assist me towards a better understanding of rural Bangladesh.
I hardly hope that this report meets your expectations. I would take great pleasure in providing
you with clarification if required.
Sincerely yours
---------------------------A.K.M Baha Uddin Khan
ID: 1110079
Section: 06, Group 05, Nator TMSS

Table of Content
Content

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Acknowledgement
Letter of transmittal
Abstract
Part A
Experience
Part B
Introduction
Data and Methodology
Limitation
Village mapping
Objective
Health and sanitation
Women empowerment
Social values
Rural Economy
Food and Nutrition
Comments
HHID
Conclusion

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Abstract

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The rural areas, the village are not just a single word or not just a group of words its the
root of all people of Bangladesh. Its the nerve of happiness. The people who lives in
concrete city like Dhaka doesnt know the meaning of village if they doesnt experience
a single day and night in that environment. Sometimes we go abroad to explore whats
there that we havent seen. But we never see which lies in our country, the true essence
of our culture. So IUB has designed Live-in-Field Experience (LFE) to introduce the
students with village community and their life style. The program is jointly organized by
IUB and TMSS Nator. The whole LFE is a learning process for the students. We used
Mobile based data collection method. We formed group of two students and assigned to
work on Bon-bel-goria village. It was approximately 5-6 K.M. from TMSS. We
collected data through individual and group interview of the Villagers. Our findings and
analysis shows that Bon-bel-goria village is average developed village. Literacy rate is
appreciable. The villagers are divided into several classes with the respect of their
financial condition.

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Part-A

Experience
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The journey started from IUB campus at 9.30 am. LFE section 06 consist of 65
students,3 faculties and 3 monitors. The destination is TMSS Nator ,Rajshahi,
Bangladesh. Overall LFE period is full of experience and learning.
We divide our experience in two segments. One is survey part and another is
building bonding who are not our friends who are different department and
different majors. Spend some days with F&F (Friends and Faculties) is a most
remarkable memorable moment of an IUBans life through course.
Survey part
LFE taught us how to find a person or house hold using persons name and his/her
fathers name. First day we were assigned to find out 10 listed House Hold because
it helps to prepare us to plan how we start our assigned task. In that day we face
lot of problems to find out the houses like face 2/3 persons named was same so that
we have to sort out our target etc. Second day was first official day for submit data
in main IUB server. Second day we input survey data into the main server not
doing any mistake. The interview part was more interesting because local people
dont will to talk with us so that we have to convince them ask them lot of Adult
question, Ask them about dowry and this is the most critical part because normally
they become embarrassed when someone ask about dowry so that we have to use
different technique to get the right answer. Some time their neighbor create
complexity why you are conducting this nonsense survey .always you people write
something and then go but we do not get any economical support from you , that
situation we convinced them that we are not a government representative, we are
student so on.
Through we understand local culture, their norms and philosophy, the culture of
Bon-bel-goria village.

Creating friendship
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The other experience is when we back to the venue All of we take our meal in a
central dining hall .our room was full of happiness. We were 5 friends from the
first semester live in TMSS 201 no room. At the first time we know few friends out
o 65 but at the end of the course we know each other as a whole, experienced most
exciting moment at Gala night.

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Part-B

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Introduction
To build nation Education is must because Education is backbone of a nation. Education
is a window, which helps us to see the whole world from our own ground. That
education is more effective which is directly related to the reality.
Bangladesh is an agro based country with a village and peasant cultures, of the total
population 75% have originated from rural areas. The village communities play a
dominant and pioneer role in the process of human civilization and also in the history of
establishment. Still Bangladesh is a developing country and our root of civilization is
made from rural area but unfortunately this rural areas are always be neglected by urban
civilization. Still now rural areas are the main life line of our economy. Still now the
rural cultural and norms are a teacher for urban individual civilization. To understand
the culture, economy and environment of our country we first have to understand the
village people of our country. Without the contribution of village people it can be really
hard for Bangladesh to progress in near future. So as a dutiful citizen of Bangladesh
every citizen of Bangladesh but especially urban peoples and students need to get
familiar with the rural peoples and their cultures
To understand that reality, a person have to present in that environment that helps to feel
how they live , their way of thinking, the karishmetic technique to smile in the full of
sorrows,
To understand the village peoples and their culture and provide knowledge to students to
understand the reality of life IUB conducts a mandatory course called LFE (Live in
Field Experience). Undoubtedly I can say that, students are eagerly waited to enroll in
this course. It just not a course, it is complete package to see the other and understand
their views to be social to be an extrovert person. The section 06 LFE Summer 2015
started the journey at 21st August 2015 to 1st September 2015with 65 students, 4
faculties and 3 monitors in TMSS, Nator, Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
Our assigned destination was BON-BEL-GORIA Village in NATORE. Here I
conducted systematic field study of rural life, culture, lifestyle, and way of living
and educational system. It helps us to understand the people, their way of life, their
sufferings, their needs and wants.
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Data and Methodology

I have collected information by field survey by interviewing the local people who
are members of our selected households and complete one HHID a day. I use
Internet enable cell phone to submit the survey data through IUB specialized
website. Here I used a website named nat.iubsurv.org & put all the information in
that website. This was a very convenient process for doing survey & we were able
to give faster input without wasting any papers. We did real time data entry. I had
collected data and gave input simultaneously. It is a methodology for action
research and utilizes a range of techniques. Primary information for this report has
been collected through observation, attentive listening and in depth interviews.
Methodology
Methodology is a combination of methods and analytical frameworks that are used
to accomplish some goals. We used Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) technique
in our LFE.
PRA:
Participatory rural appraisal (PRA) is a label given to a growing family of
participatory approaches and methods that emphasize on local knowledge and
enable local people to make their own appraisal, analysis, and plans. PRA uses
group animation and exercises to facilitate information sharing, analysis, and
action among stakeholders. Although originally developed for use in rural areas,
PRA has been employed successfully in a variety of settings. The purpose of PRA
is to enable development practitioners, government officials, and local people to
work together to plan context-appropriate program
Key views of PRA
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Participation: Local peoples input into PRA activities is essential to its

value as a research and planning method and as a means for diffusing the
participatory approach to development.

Teamwork: To the extent that the validity of PRA data relies on information

interaction and brainstorming among those involved, it is best done by a team that
includes local people with perspective knowledge of the areas conditions,
traditions, and social structure and either nationals or expatriates with a
complementary mix of disciplinary backgrounds and experience. A well-balanced
team will represent the diversity of socioeconomic, cultural, gender, and
generational perspectives.

Flexibility: PRA does not provide blueprints for its practitioners. The

combination of techniques that is appropriate in a particular development context

will be determine by such variables as the size and skill mix of the PRA team, the
time and resources available, and the topic and location of the work.

Optical Ignorance: To be efficient in terms of both time and money, PRA

work intends to gather just enough information to make the necessary

recommendations and decisions.

Triangulation: PRA works with qualitative data. To ensure that information

is valid and reliable, PRA teams follow the rule of thumb that at least three sources
must be consulted of techniques must be used to investigate the same topics.

PRA Tools
We used the following PRA tools

Village and Transact Mapping

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Observatory walks to study natural resources, topography, soils and

vegetation, farming practices, problems and opportunities which are cross
tallied with the resource mapping and modeling. It is done by walking
through the area, with a group of villagers either following a particular
course, cross country or covering the area in a combing or sweeping and for
constructing the village map we gathered a few villagers and asked them to
draw the map on the soil, from where we had the idea about the actual map.

Timeline Analysis
Time and events, history, evolution, agriculture practices, health care
practices, etc. (Done by constructing a chronology of events that have taken
place in consultation with the people). The map concentrates on the
important social establishment, different locations of households, crop fields
and other resources of the village. The transect map gives a view of the
villages natural resources, topography, soils and vegetation. Farming
practices, problems and opportunities which are cross tallied with the
resource mapping

Gender Role
This part focuses on understanding and documenting the differences in
gender roles, activities, needs, and opportunities in a given context. Gender
analysis involves the desegregation of quantitative data by gender. It
highlights the different roles and learned behavior of men and women based
on gender attributes. These vary across cultures, class, ethnicity, income,
education, and time; thus, gender analysis does not treat woman as a
homogeneous group or gender attributes as immutable.
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Wealth Ranking
Establishing economic order of members of a community, it is done by
interviewing a suitable villager(s), who then classifies different members
into separate groups identified as distinct economic classes in the village.

Market Analysis
For doing the market analysis we went to the haat during the haatbar,
Monday and Wednesday and interviewed different traders and sellers. We
asked them different questions as we were instructed. We also interviewed
some permanent shop owners. They gave us an idea about the product flow
and distribution channels.

Limitations
Limitations of our field work were:
The major problem of our field work was inadequate or shortage of time. A
longer time period can make our data collection even more accurate.
Some misguidance of the villagers by giving some wrong information also is
a limitation.
Second major limitation is communication barrier because most female
respondents wont will to talk with us
During our survey and inspection of the village, most male members were
out of their house and as a result the quantity of female respondent got
higher which may reflect in getting some scattered answer regarding some
questions.

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 Uttar Para is really a small part of Bonbelgoria village. Due to the size of the
village it doesnt have requirements, which should be present in a village
characteristic
Technical complexity is another limitation for this survey.
Coming from urban background our language, behavior, personality and
knowledge learned may have been a bottleneck during the first few days. This to
some extent was subdued through repeated interaction with the people.

Village mapping
The village mapping gives the idea of the geographical settings Road, Mosque,
Shop,House,School,Madrasa,Pond of the village
Occupation and Migration: During Pakistan period and even till today most of the
people are farmers. After liberation some became shop owners and today some
own small businesses. There are few who are industry workers and vehicle drivers.
Migration was a big concern for the villagers. Today a lot of people have their
business in the city so they tend to migrate to the city and live there. The chart
below shows migration rate in different periods from village to city:
Medical Facility: The villagers since beginning have local doctors like Kobiraj
who gives herbal medicine. Later on after liberation few doctors were available
who gave Alopathy. Currently there are doctors nearby to the village and they
prescribe Antibiotique medicine. NGOs have created awareness on the HIV,
hygiene matters and vaccinations.

Sanitation: In the early days people didnt have any sort of sanitation system. They
didnt have soap or ash to wash after using the latrine. Now they have pit latrine
and ring slab in almost every household. They use tube well for almost washing
clothes, taking shower, drinking water and so on. Tube wells are to be seen
everyone in the village and it is Arsenic free as our Para is a highland area.
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Immunization: The villagers have pretty much immunized their children against
diseases like Polio, Tetanus etc. with the help of the NGO who has been working in
these villages for a long time and have been actively teaching and creating
awareness about the problems of not being immunized.
Population: Population is a worldwide problem and it doesnt spare Bangladesh.
Our population is increasing day by day. We all know that 80% of the population
of Bangladesh lives in the rural areas and the rest in the urban areas. There are so
many factors that have affected the increase in population such as high birth rate.

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Family Type: During the Pakistan period the villagers used to live in joint families.
A nuclear family includes Father, Mother and their children. There are few nuclear
families but we see traces of joint families still existing. The villages agreed on
nuclear families because of increase in daily expenses and poor economic status.
For many years NGOs have educated the villagers about arsenic, health and
sanitation, family planning, women empowerment and so many other things.

Objectives
Bangladesh is a rural based country. 75% of our total populations are village
people and the remaining are urban peoples. These urban people have lesser idea
about the lifestyle of village people compare to urban people. Especially students
of urban areas also have lesser idea about the lifestyle of village people. To know
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the village people and their lifestyle properly IUB has originated LFE (Live in
Field Experience).Though the time is too short but it creates a great impact on
students mind, this feelings are easily identical when they return.10% of total
students in each section of IUB LFE program are found who doesnt have any
single day or night experience of village.
The general objective of LFE is to help the participants learn the application of
social research, appreciate rural problems and gain firsthand experience of working
with rural people.
The specific objectives are:
The knowledge about qualitative method of data collection.
To learn the how to identify a person/persons house just use his name and
his fathers name nothing else.
Gain knowledge about rural life in Bangladesh, its people, and their
standard of living.
To have an idea about the economic condition of the villagers, as well as
facts, demographic, social, environmental and health.
To learn the application of social research using Mobile Data collection
Method.
And field survey for appreciating problems and potential of rural areas.
To use latest technology to aster the process without hampering the
environment like mobile data collection method in field.
To gain firsthand experience of working with rural people in their traditional
environment as well as an understanding of development needs of rural
areas.

Health and sanitation

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The converging pressures of global climate change and urbanization have a

devastating effect on Bangladeshs most vulnerable populations. At this moment,
millions of people in the country are exposed to extremely high food and waterborne disease risks such as bacterial and protozoan diarrhea, Hepatitis A and E, and
typhoid fever. Bangladeshs disease burden is further exacerbated by unsanitary
living conditions that underscore the poor economic conditions of both urban and
rural home dwellers. Sadly, these poor health outcomes disproportionately impact
children under the age of five years, causing widespread morbidity and mortality;
the second leading cause of death in children under five is diarrheal disease.
Majority percent of rural people are in poverty level they doesnt have proper
education thats why they are not conscious about their safety and security in the
contrast of health and sanitation
They use tube well for their primary source of water and also they use pond for
taking bath. In Bon-bel-goria village the ratio of water contaminate diseases are
low its a positive index for that locality
In sanitation section village people improved their latrine lot. Most of the house
holds owner has their own latrine.
Village peoples generally prefer to consult pharmacists and village doctors for their
major diseases such as fever, cough, jondis etc. Some village peoples also prefer to
consult kobiraj for their major diseases. But for minor diseases not all but some
village peoples prefer to consult private doctors and prefer to go clinic. But the

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problem is there are no major clinics and health centers in villages. So they have to
go far away from their village to consult good quality doctors and to go good
clinics and health centers. As a result they prefer to consult village doctors and
pharmacists for their diseases. So I think doctor facilities and health centre quality
of villages are still not good.
In Bon-bel-goria village, most of the decisions about family planning are taken by
the familys head. That means most of the times husband of a family takes all the
decisions. Sometimes they leave some of the decisions (which are minor) on their
wives. But interestingly we found a house where all the decisions about family
planning are taken by the wife. We also tried to make them understand about the
importance of taking family planning. They are really very passionate people as
well as very good listeners as because when we were talking about any of the
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topics just keeping the questionnaire aside we found them listening to us with great
attention.
The studies of health and environment of a particular village define the living
quality; concentrate on the environmental and health resources. There are about
68,000 villages in Bangladesh. These villages have different health and
environment situation. We can realize a village from many points of view. If we
have a close look to health and environment issues, we can realize many things,
such as the consciousness, education, social, economic, administrative, cultural and
wealth, peoples metal and physical condition. Health and Environment are
interrelated. Environmental effects cause some effect on health, which is reverse.
Environment plays a significant role on health condition. Normally a good
environment can ensure a better life.
During the Nineties, considerable progress has been achieved in Bangladesh in the
fields of Health. Primary Health-care facilities have been expanded throughout the
country. Infant and maternal mortality rates have come down dramatically.
Population growth rate is now below 2 percent.
The Government is actively involved in providing primary health care facilities
though Union and Thana Health Complexes, secondary health care facilities
through District level hospitals, and tertiary health-care facilities through Medical
College Hospitals, Post-graduate Institutes and specialized hospitals at divisional
and national levels.
Apart from Government initiatives, a good number of NGOs and private
organizations are playing an important role in the health sector. Clinic facilities,
health care services on immunization, MCH-FP, Nutrition, Health-education,
provision of safe drinking water, sanitation, control of epidemics and endemic
diseases, supply of essential drugs, etc. are some of the fields in which they are
working.
In spite of Government and other Organizations support still some of the villages
of Bangladesh do not have hospitals or clinics. The villagers have to go to district
hospitals. The district hospitals are generally overcrowded with capacity unequal to
demand. As a result poor people do not get the proper services from the Govt.
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hospital. A few lucky persons get the better treatment from the private sector
because they can effort. And our village Bon-bel-goria is one of those in
Bangladesh which doesnt have such facilities for treatment.
Common diseases in Uttar Para
During the survey it has been observed that the general health condition of the
Utter Para is quite good. The good news is people are free from the fear of Arsenic
in this area.
Still there are some common diseases among the households. From the below
table, we can see that the most common disease among household members is
fever. The reason may be infection; rural people easily get infected with germs as
they go around all day barefooted and lack other hygiene practices. We did not find
too many serious diseases among the respondents.
Table: Prevalence of Diseases
No.
Diseases
%
18
Fever
26%
17
Dysentery
24%
14
Cough
20%
2
Gastric
3%
2
Jaundice
3%
1
Typhoid
2%
4
Measles
5%
5
Other
7%

Source: Field Survey, summer 2015

Respondent 10 house hold

Dysentery is very common among the poor. It is water born disease and indicates
the use of unhygienic water. Other type of illness we found in the survey includes
Blood pressure, Rheumatism, Measles, and Asthma etc.

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Women Empowerment
Bangladesh has successfully managed to slow down the gap, which is existed
between the males and females in the society from widening science 1990s.As far
as the empowerment of women is concerned, their economic and social status has
shown a rather promising development but other domains are yet to shift their
standing from being and adversary to being an allay, Thus the position of women
in Bangladesh still somewhat remains to be at beginners stage. Women in rural
area of Bangladesh enjoy less freedom and choice regarding their reproductive
health right than man.
We understand most of the women complete their primary education when we
interviewing them. In some case some house hold head are totally illiterate.
Though they are only primary educated but they are more knowledgeable and they
are more efficient to manage their family. They play a vital role in their family by
economic support. In Nator Bon-bel-goria village most of the female are working
in PRAN factory as a daily or monthly worker. This is a huge economic support or
their family.
The story is of a family who achieved relative success from using micro-credit.
The story is about a wife, Noziron Begum. She is a house wife. Her husband is a
mechanic in a car workshop. She is been using micro-credit scheme from last 10
years. Her recent loan was TK 30,000. With which she helped her husband to
establish an own garage. The NGO usually prefer providing loan to the women
because its easy to find them at home rather than men because most of the time
they are out for work. She has not failed to pay a single instalment. Its easy for her
and her husband to make weekly payment, and believes that theones who are not
able to pay back are due to not proper utilization of their micro-credit. She lives in
Uttar Para of Bon-bel-goria village
Family Planning
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Increasing number of population is a problem around the world, especially in the

third world countries. As one of World's most densely populated country,
Bangladesh faces an extremely difficult socio-economic and demographic
situation. From a long time Bangladesh Government try to encourage the people to
reduce their family size and involved in family planning process.

Our studied Para is also facing population growth in the recent decades. Various
factors have contributed in this rise of population. Like peoples lack of knowledge
on family planning and more people were not educated and migration of people
from other villages.

Family
Planning

Response

Yes

22

88%

No

12%

Now a day, in Utter Para peoples perception about family planning has been
changed significantly. The ratio of family planning is increasing and a large
number of families including the newly married families are interested in family
planning. Presently NGOs and Government have taken proper steps in this region.
Family planning and other steps have adopted by the villagers. So currently the
growth rate of population is at a stable stage.
Family Planning Methods
Usual family planning tools in Utter Para are pills, injection, nor-plant and condom
(very rare). In previous days pill was most commonly used protection type for the
women but now injection is most popular even though Government provide pills in
free. Injection provides protection for 6 months and nor-plant is one kind of family
planning tools where one kind of plate is planted in the arms though a small
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operation. Though nor-plant is risky and has some side effect women used it
because it provides protection for 7 years.

Figure: Pie Chart on Family Planning Methods

Problems in Family planning
In Utter Para women are more conscious about family planning than their male
partner. And it has been a normal scenario that women use more protection than the
male, because of their ego problem. Male partner normally believe that if they use
any protection they will be underestimated.
As nor-plant is one of the most common family planning methods and it has side
effects, most women of Utter Para are now facing some problems like back pain,
headache, problem in period etc.
Changes take place in the village through Family Planning
In the recent years the family size has been reduced significantly. It gives an
economical balance in the family. Especially for the middle class and lower class
people.
Parents are more concerned about the education of their children. Previously it was
hard for the poor people to educate his many childrens because of financial
constraint.
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It also enables the government to provide necessary support for the children in
different sector like education, health, nutrition etc. Which is difficult to provide
for a large number of population.

Vaccination
People of Utter Para are very much aware of the vaccination program by the World
Health Organization (WHO). Individual programs like EPI (Expanded Program on
Immunization) and National Vaccination Day has a great deal to get rid of major
life threatening childhood diseases throughout the country. This programs ensure
that all children receive a BCG vaccination against six childhood diseases; polio,
Diphtheria, Whooping cough, Measles and Tetanus. WHO recommends that
children receive all of these vaccines in the first year?
People of Utter Para are more conscious about their children. Most of the villagers
vaccinated their children for 6 diseases. Villagers are aware about vaccination of
their children because Government organizations comes every 3 months and every
2 months public health care center people comes in that village and aware people
about deadly diseases and vaccination.

Table: Vaccination status of the children in Utter Para

Name of the Diseases

Children vaccinated
Yes
No.

Polio

36

100%

Diphtheria

36

100%

Whooping Cough

36

100%

Measles

36

100%

Total no.
children
vaccinated

of

36

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Tetanus

36

100%

Hepatitis B

36

0%

Source: Field Survey, summer 2015

Respondent: 10 House holds

In Uttar Para, because of Government commitment, donor support, NGO and civil
society involvement, the program attained great success within 5 years. The
coverage in terms of children fully immunized reached 100% in 2009(approx.) for
polio Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Measles, Tetanus. But still people are unaware
of Hepatitis B Vaccination, for that reason Jaundice is a common disease among
the children of Uttar Para.
Factors behind the successful Vaccination rate
Establishments of NGOs in this part of Natore.
Health workers hard work on a regular basis around the village, advising the
villagers on the importance of vaccination, health care, safe water, sanitation etc.
Satellite clinics arrange regular vaccination events in the village.
Increasing literacy rate make people more aware of the importance of the
vaccination.

The govt. initiatives are totally successful in respect of vaccination. So, infant
mortality rate has been decreased remarkably

Social values and dowry system

Dowry will become first and firmest because social challenge. Because though
the other problems like Rape, Baby marriage, Murder and Kidnapping are
happening in the society, they will not affect as strong because Dowry system
offers its influence. Dowry generally speaking perception is meant to stand for this
monetary value of something that is transacted right at that moment or soon after
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of union between your lick in addition to brides family members being a demand.
But in this stringent perception this repayment given by this future husband
towards the bride-to-be isnt considered to be this dowry its known as dower.

The right of Dower/Mahr

Allah says in the Qur'an:
"Wa aatoo an-nisaa'a saduqaatihinna nihlatan... And give the women their dower
with a good heart... "
This verse is addressed to the husband because it is their responsibility to pay the
dower. This verse shows that the dower must be given to the wife and should not
be given to the guardians. There are other verse which shows the obligation to pay
dower to the wife.
Regarding dower there are 3 different views. One is that in its incidents it is similar
to Donatio propter Nupteas of the Romans. Second that it is given by the husband
to the wife as a mark of respect; and Third that it is a device to control the
unfettered power of the husband to divorce his wife. According Islamic law where
there is a marriage there is a dower. It is a bridal gift. It is a token of respect to the
bride. All religious strictly prohibited dowry but in this village people don obey
that rituals and rules .
In this village dowry system practice ration is too much high. According to my
survey experience I come to know every girl parents have to provide dowry
directly or indirectly. In some cases parents dont give money but in terms of
money they have to provide furniture or other materials as honor of their girls.
Social value consists of social custom, practice, religion and social moral standard.
Social value shows the moral standard of ours. Without social values we cannot
grow up as a complete social man. In the past social values were more
conservative, rigid and strong. We all know that Bangladesh is a conservative
Muslim country. People used to live a more religious. The young were more
respectful to the old and superior. Smoking in front of the superior was forbidden.
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People used to believe in joint families. But now people are getting more and more
liberal. They follow religion in a more relaxed way. Men and women now mix
frequently. Sometime female are lose their freedom under the social dirty
practicing in this village. A poor girl has to get married 14/15 age for some social
circumstances.

Rural Economy
Bangladesh is a small country in the south Asia. Its main economic source is
agriculture and the main occupation of rural people as well.
In Bon-bel-goria village economy is pretty much sound than the previous years.
Who have 15,000 to 20,000 monthly income he is rich in the point of view of Bonbel-goria villagers and those persons who are in 5000 or below they are poor.

Farmers in Fakir Para grow both food grains and vegetables. Corn and Paddy are
the popular ones among the food grains. Snake- gourd, yard-long gourd, cucumber,
and gourd are also some of the popular vegetables. Among them, snake-gourds are
very sought after in the outside markets, and they are even exported to Dhaka city
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nowadays as the opening of Jamuna Bridge has made communication and

infrastructure easier. This part of Natore is not hit by floods thus disasters are not
that frequent and farmers seem to be quite happy about the weather. However lack
of rainfall occurs at times which pauses paddy plantation and cultivation especially
of AMON. Soil erosion is taking place which is hampering the growth of potato,
though it is being accounted for by good corn harvest, but already rotten fields are
not being cured by the authorities
The economy of Bon-bel-goria village based on agricultural goods like various
kinds peas, Garlic, Mustard, Sugar Cane and rice. A sugar mill, rice mill and
PRAN factory dominates the economy.
Most of the females of the Bon-bel-goria village work in Pran factory. In our 10
HHID we found 6 HHIDs at least one member work in PRAN factory as worker
or a officer.
Some people migrate to other place for their economic solvency. Nator is popular
for sweet KachaGolla so that another income generator is sweet business.

Food and nutrition

The relationship between poverty and food insecurity is a complex one where
several key dimensions could be found. For many reasons, such as ill health,
disability, loss of job, lower level of education and employment and higher cost of
living etc. are the factors besides the major causes of food insecurity. The risk of
food insecurity in low-income families is associated with lack of access to land,
single-parent families, and lack of alternative occupation, unstable income level
and having a poor family head. The most important issue facing by the most people
is inadequate access to food which is fundamentally an outcome of poverty.
Food security of Bangladesh is adversely affected by higher food prices; since
income may be increased but not sufficient for poor people to adjust with high
prices compared to lower income. Therefore, the amount of food insecured
population has been increasing. When I conduct my survey I have seen may of my
respondent are not happy with their regular food supply system. They are very
much poor, sometimes they cannot afford three time food in day. Employment ratio
is too much low which causes a lower price of labour where supply is high. They
are not conscious about their health and nutrition. I have seen majority of people
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are looking sick and not in good health condition because there are so many issues
are related for not having bacis need which is food.
Land rights are very complicated; consequently, poor people are often losing their
land to the powerful. Besides agricultural day-labouring, share cropping and share
rearing for absentee landlords, alternative income sources are even scarcer than on
the mainland. Lower literacy rate, inadequate health facilities are making them
poorer socio economically in terms of food insecurity
Frequent floods and river erosion result in a loss of assets for the population,
agricultural activities, hamper of livestock, scarcity of water and shortage of
fodder. Employment opportunities are decreasing. People are being displaced and
their access to work. In Bangladesh, including other developing countries, women
spend a large time in collecting, cooking and searching for fuel in rural
Bangladesh. From utilisation insight, poor women and girls are more likely to
suffer from malnutrition, especially pregnant and lactating women and adolescent
girls
However, unequal distributions are common in Bangladesh where women and
children are not getting enough food. There is a stereotyping assumption or socalled social custom that mothers and wives have to take food at last in rural
Bangladesh. In addition, the girl children are given less food than their male
counterparts of the households. All these factors are making women largely food
insecured. The nutritional status of women largely depends on poverty situation.
Malnutrition among women is extremely prevalent in this village.

Comments
Live in field Experience (LFE) is wonderful course for all IUBans. IUB arrange
LFE course twice in each year. Near about 9 to 10 lac money move from Dhaka.
Naturally rural economy is weaken economy of Bangladesh and money move to
rural area in festival and Two EID is big festival of our country. About 25,00,000
people move to rural area from capital that why money also move that area heavily.
One renowned economist said that about 100 core money move that period and
that way rural economy being healthy. For LFE section 06 about 3 to 5 lac taka out
of 9,75,000 move to Nator economy directly through IUB authority which creates
a great impact on that economy.
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On the other hand 65 students easily spend at least 2000 money each which leads
1,30,000 taka also enter NatorBoro-Horishpur village, Jongli-AkDala and Bon
Belghodiya village additionally.
LFE just not a course its a School Of Experience. This program create impact in
three different way one is taught student about village, Second Conducting survey
and Third play a role in rural economy.

HHID

Conclusion
Bon-bel-goria village is one of the oldest villages. People of Bon-bel-goria have
seen a lot of changes and as time passed by these changes became more significant,
Village has changed in many aspects from before. Uttar para is in east side of the
village and we discovered its health facility, economy, market, changes and
importantly village itself. Gradually people of Uttar Para are getting educated and
are being well award of important issues. Unlike before women are given decision
making role in some areas like household and at times business. Wealth is
measured with the amount of land owned and market is creating lot of
opportunities for villagers.

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Every process of developments has to start from one prospect and then it links to
another. Fakir para is an ideal village, with a good culture, values and norms.
Though they are at times deprived of electricity, gas, good road system, they are
happy and contented. The roads are still undeveloped, during monsoon its very
hard to walk through the slippery soil. Communication system is getting better
with mobile phones and computers.
We discovered a lot about Bon-bel-goria village in Taltola. Knowing their roots
gave us an idea about past decades and their present lifestyle. This Live in fieldexperience helped us to know about our own cultures and village ways. As we
know most of population of our country is rural, so it helped us know our own
country.
Bon-bel-goria is a small village situated Natore. Even though it was a small village
but we could not pore over on each and every part of the village as we had time
limitations. In a nutshell LFE gave me the exposure to rural life and opened up a
whole new world. It provided me with a chance to use our academic knowledge on
the field. In spite of that we tried to give and share the views on the basis of our
perspective on the village context. I have covered the basic scenario of this village
which actually shows the different aspects of the life of the village people. As I
gathered important ideas about peasant society, rural society, village community,
behavior, culture, production, rural environment and lifestyle therefore, I have tried
to come up with the analysis about the different dimension of the Bon-bel-goria
Village.
I learned about some rural traditions and social changes that have occurred in the
village in course of time. LFE has helped me enrich my knowledge of rural life. I
have the confidence to take part in any discussion on rural Bangladesh. In a
nutshell LFE gave me the exposure to rural life and opened up a whole new world.
It provided me with a chance to use our academic knowledge on the field. LFE
provided me with an opportunity to learn about the rural Bangladesh, the real
Bangladesh. Although most of us had some preconceived ideas about villages, its
people and their life style, these were developed from reading books, which in
many cases were stereotyped. An in-field study of this kind has opened up for us
new dimensions regarding rural life. Now we can identify the wrong views
harbored by many and differentiate.
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