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Let us ensure safe journey of women in buses

Published : Saturday, 17 February, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 1001
Throughout the ages, women have been looked down upon or neglected in the society. In the name of rules, on the left side of the driver, a small number of horizontal seats are kept reserved for women in the buses in Dhaka city. It has been made permanence, which is a serious matter of disadvantage for women. Its risky to get up there, if you e old, if you e a child-bearing woman - or for any girl. So its inhuman. It is necessary to keep one-third of the seats reserved for women. After dealing with the difficult tasks of the family, women now come out of home.

Now women moving out of their houses and joining different professions such as government, private, NGOs, banks, insurance, educational institutions, schools, colleges, madrasas, universities.

The sector where women are contributing also include print, publications and electronic media, multinational companies, group companies, buying houses, garment factories, hospitals, engineering or architect firms, literary and cultural academies, and acting world.

Last year, Rupali Bank authorities appointed more women than men as the officers, senior officers or employee level. From KG nursery to government primary, secondary, school college-university, the number of women teachers is increasing. The number of female student is not less than that of boys.

Nowadays, women are not lagging behind in the work of repairing roads, breaking bricks, and building large buildings. Women are also being engaged in from cake making to the raw curry market, to the fish and meat market.

In small and cigarette shops, in the markets, being the owner of the market, becoming a shopkeeper, selling books or managing many things at the publishing level, women are managing the business and trade in a very coordinated way. Women owners are doing the buying and selling activities without any shame or hesitation.

There is no shortage of female workers in the political arena. For the past 30 years, only women have been in the prime ministers seat in the country. The number of women MPs and ministers is also not less. Garment workers are undoubtedly women in majority.

So why only 6/9 seats are reserved for women in the buses? Even at the drivers side where they sit taking at risk without the facility of leaning. It is seen that young boys sleep in leaning condition in their seats. Men remain advantageous condition at home while they sleep inside the bus comfortably.

Women take care of household chores like cooking. In the bus without leaning and without sleep, women have to remain awake all the way. In fact, it will not be wrong to say that men always take more advantages. If one-third of the seats and tall chair like seat remain reserved for women, it will be good for the country and the society.

Education is like the backbone of the nation, while the backbone of the family is women. If they are sick, there will never be progress in the family. A unrest like situation will ensue in the family because of their sickness. Children will suffer with a sick mother.

So whats the harm in being careful to live a healthy life? No harm. All that is needed is a little empathy-sympathy-cooperation from men with women.

It is certainly not unknown that the body of girls as well as the spine and hips are weaker and softer than boys. Their bones are also thin. When they are mothers, the bones of the spine are completely weakened. Because these thin bones have to hold the babys weight, etc. Meanwhile, sitting in the cross seat in the bus is a serious loss for women. All the pressure and risk is placed on their hip or spine bones first-this causes spinal degeneration. Once it is never completely cured, just like diabetes, blood pressure becomes a life-long reality.

Then they have to follow many health rules and regulations. If not, it bring brings terrible results for them. So, if women remain careful in advance, they can get rid of the risk of this disease. If women can get chance to sit in a normal easy seat during the journey, the pressure on their waist is felt less.

So can do that much damage. It is certainly much better for everyone to live a careful, happy and prosperous life than to follow a strict regimen of vitamin-calcium tablets for the rest of their lives.

If men do not consider women, it is never possible to match. So let us establish this good work in honour of language veterans in the month of February. I dedicate this call to the welfare of the nation to pay respect to language martyrs.

At the moment, womens lives are busy. Therefore, in todays society, no woman wants to see the loss of anything in their lives. Women want no bus contractor and helpers say that there is no seat for women, and women should not get up. Rather, they want to hear that men should not get up in the buses as there is no seat for them.
The author is a poet and journalist



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