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Two local government areas in Oyo State, (Iseyin and Oyo East) were purposively selected based on the abundance of operational sawmills. Descriptive analysis and logistic regression (α0.05) were used to analyze the data obtained from the respondents. The results showed that most of the respondents (71.3% and 81.7%) interviewed were male in Oyo East and Iseyin respectively. Respondents (68.8% and 79.2%) in Oyo East and Iseyin respectively stated that they are members of the timber contractor's association in their area. In Oyo East, 20%, 11.3%, 8.8% and 5.5% of the respondents respectively reported that they were involved in the planning of forest activities, planting of seeds and seedlings, monitoring and forest laws enforcement and formulation of forest policies. In Iseyin, 20.8%, 11.7%, 10.8% and 9.2% of the respondents respectively iterated that they were involved in the planning of forest activities, monitoring and forest laws enforcement and formulation of forest policies. Logistic regression analysis showed that educational background (0.787) and the number of years in business (0.840) had significant influence on respondents' willingness to contribute to forestry development. The study revealed that provision of financial support, better law enforcement and proper land management will increase timber contractors' contribution to forestry development.

Noakhali Pourashava is an important municipality in southern Bangladesh, faces severe waterlogging problems every year during the monsoon period. The present study aimed to investigate the major causes of waterlogging and its negative effects on life, from the viewpoint of people residing in different areas of Noakhali Pourashava, various government, non-government, development organizations as well as various stakeholders including experts. It has been found that Noakhali Pourashava experienced waterlogging during peak monsoon season in ward no. 1, 2, 4, 5, and 8. Most of the inhabitants/respondents of the Noakhali Pourashava claimed that lack of drainage facility; excessive rainfall; inadequate, low capacity and conventional drainage system; natural siltation; improper waste management; absence of proper inlets and outlets; and blockage and encroachment of existing drainage are responsible for waterlogging. It has ascertained that the water logging becomes a burden for the inhabitants of the Pourashava and creating adverse effects on livelihood, society, infrastructure, economy and environment. Other notable adverse effects of waterlogging are disruption of traffic movement and normal life, structures and infrastructure damage and loss of income potentials with a lot of sufferings. The stagnant water acts as a breeding site for the vectors of various diseases and becomes a health hazard to people residing in the waterlogged area. The current study suggests that close coordination among Pourashava authorities, local government agencies and a strong collaboration between public and private sectors as well as local people participation are essential for solving the waterlogging problem effectively and sustainably.

Funding Information: We wish to acknowledge funding from Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA) to write this review. The research of BdR and AAS is supported by the Scottish Government's Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division (RESAS). NR is funded by the University of Copenhagen, AG and TA are funded by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, AAM is funded by Noakhali Science and Technology University Bangladesh and FM and DL are funded by the University of Stirling. ; Peer reviewed ; Publisher PDF

This study was conducted to measure physiochemical, i.e., pH, Electrical Conductivity (EC), Total Dissolved Solid (TDS), Chloride (Cl-), Iron (Fe2+), Sulphate (SO42-) and microbial parameters, like Total Viable Bacteria Count (TVBC), Total Coliform Count (TCC), Fecal Coliform (FC), Salmonella spp. and Vibrio spp. for suitability of drinking water of local restaurants in Noakhali. Total 18 samples were collected from six sampling stations, i.e., Noakhali Science and Technology University Campus (NSTU), Sonapur, Maijdee, Chowrasta, Chowmuhani and Sonaimuri, respectively. The result revealed that pH, EC, TDS, Fe2+, Cl- and SO42- were ranged from 7.19-8.47, 250-6710µs/cm, 130-370mg/l, 0.03-0.15mg/l, 46.79-2602.03mg/l, and 7.01-54.67mg/l, with the mean of 7.61, 2097.78µs/cm, 1077.22mg/l, 0.0566mg/l, 684.03mg/l and 15.40mg/l, respectively. The TVBC, TCC, FC, Salmonella spp. and Vibrio spp. were ranged from 4×104-1.81×105 cfu/100ml, 4×103-1.67×105 cfu/100ml, 0-9.2×104 cfu/100ml, 0-1.6×104 cfu/100ml, respectively but Vibrio spp. were totally absent throughout the study. The correlation between physicochemical and microbial parameters were strongly positive with TDS:EC (r=0.997), EC:Cl- (r=0.930), TDS:Cl- (r=0.929) at 0.05 level of significance and significant negative correlation between pH:EC (r=-0.563), TDS:pH (r= -0.577), SO42-:pH (r=-0.449), respectively but TVBC and TC were positively (r=0.499) correlated. The study concluded that almost all water samples were contaminated by microbial contamination and all the result of physicochemical parameters were not suitable for consumption that might be a negative impact on human health.

In her Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture (1989), Françoise Lionnet identifies the life writing of women of color as the reflection of their heterogeneous differences and theorizes female autobiographical narratives as métissage. Métissage, nearly untranslatable, meaning "braiding," views autobiography as an engagement of the author with history, myth, and cultures, and defines it as a braid of multiple voices and disparate forms. In The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976), Maxine Hong Kingston combines numerous voices into the (auto)biographical "I" as well as various forms in the narrative to express her identity as comprising manifold, different elements. In her life writing, she neither follows the unique self-representation propagated by male writers nor validates the inner personal tradition of women. Instead, breaking the fixities of thought and expression, she juxtaposes the historical with the mythical, the biographical with the autobiographical to form a language of resistance and solidarity. The present paper argues that by articulating her identity as a braid of differences, constructing self as a braid of multiple voices, and making her narrative a braid of multiple genres and traditions Kingston enacts her life writing as a politics of métissage. ; shirin@nstu.edu.bd ; Shirin Akter Popy - is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Bangladesh. Her research articles have appeared in reputed peer reviewed journals like Crossings, Harvest, Commonwealth Review, Dialogue and Overtones. Her area of interest is autobiography studies. She is currently involved in a research project on selected South Asian Women's autobiography. ; Noakhali Science and Technology University, Bangladesh ; Blinde, P. L. 1979. The icicle in the desert: Perspective and form in the works of two Chinese-American women writers. The Ethnic Perspective 6:3: 51-71. ; Bolaki, S. 2009. It translated well: The promise and the perils of ...

The study of Integrated Rural Development is a backgound paper for a regional development programme with an integrated approach which FINNIDA is planning to start in Tanzania. After a brief discussion of the concept of Integrated Rural Development (IRD) and the changes it has undergone, it is further assessed in the light of an analysis of 4 case studies of IRD supported by Nordic aid agencies: Hambotota IRD Programme (Sri Lanka/NORAD), Noakhali IRD Programme (Bangladesh/DANIDA), Agricultural Sector Support Programme in Zambia (Zambia/SIDA) and Kigoma Rural Development Programme (Tanzania/World Bank). Planned rural development in Tanzania is then discussed in detail, drawing on the experiences gained in regional IRD with a view to the regional integrated development plans (RIDEPs) to be set up by FINNIDA. Finally the role of research in IRD is taken up. (DÜI-Ptk)

The decade of the 1940s was a turbulent one for Bengal. War, famine, riots and partition - Bengal witnessed it all, and the unique experience of each of these factors created a space for diverse social and political forces to thrive and impact the lives of people of the province. The book embarks on a study of the last seven years of colonial rule in Bengal, analysing the interplay of multiple socioeconomic and political factors that shaped community identities into communal ones. The focus is on three major communal riots that the province witnessed - the Dacca Riots (1941), the Great Calcutta Killings (August 1946) and the Noakhali Riots (October 1946). This book moves beyond the binary understanding of communalism as Hindu versus Muslim and looks at the caste politics in the province, and offers a complete understanding of the 1940s before partition

The Rakhains are an ethnic group of diasporic peoples currently living in different parts of Bangladesh. Following their exodus in 1784, they have formed enclave-like settlements in Cox's Bazar, Chittagong Hill-tracts, Noakhali, Patuakhali and Barguna. In this paper, we haves crutinized of how cultural assimilation has impacted on the lifestyles of the diasporic Rakhain communities living in Patuakhali, a district in the Southern parts of Bangladesh, and have demonstrated how this assimilation has brought in internal cultural changes among the Rakhain peoples. Methods of analyses of this research include conducting interviews of Rakhain headsmen, conducting library based research and analyzing news articles and relevant audio-visual discourses. Results of data and analyses show that the Rakhain peoples have faced difficulties in retaining cultural integrity despite their deliberate attempts and undergone a degree of cultural changes in the recent decades. This paper finds that unwelcoming neighborhoods, lack of education, financial insolvency and disproportionately low representation in the local government are the principal reasons behind these changes.

The Rakhains are an ethnic group of diasporic peoples currently living in different parts of Bangladesh. Following their exodus in 1784, they have formed enclave-like settlements in Cox's Bazar, Chittagong Hill-tracts, Noakhali, Patuakhali and Barguna. In thispaper, we havescrutinized of how cultural assimilation has impacted on the lifestyles of the diasporic Rakhain communities living in Patuakhali, a district in the Southern parts of Bangladesh, and have demonstrated how this assimilation has brought in internal cultural changes among the Rakhain peoples. Methods of analyses of this research include conducting interviews of Rakhain headsmen, conducting library based research and analyzing news articles and relevant audio-visual discourses. Results of data and analyses show that the Rakhain peoples have faced difficulties in retaining cultural integrity despite their deliberate attempts and undergone a degree of cultural changes in the recent decades. Thispaper finds that unwelcoming neighborhoods, lack of education, financial insolvency and disproportionately low representation in the local government are the principal reasons behind these changes.

The Rakhains are an ethnic group of diasporic peoples currently living in different parts of Bangladesh. Following their exodus in 1784, they have formed enclave-like settlements in Cox's Bazar, Chittagong Hill-tracts, Noakhali, Patuakhali and Barguna. In this paper, we haves crutinized of how cultural assimilation has impacted on the lifestyles of the diasporic Rakhain communities living in Patuakhali, a district in the Southern parts of Bangladesh, and have demonstrated how this assimilation has brought in internal cultural changes among the Rakhain peoples. Methods of analyses of this research include conducting interviews of Rakhain headsmen, conducting library based research and analyzing news articles and relevant audio-visual discourses. Results of data and analyses show that the Rakhain peoples have faced difficulties in retaining cultural integrity despite their deliberate attempts and undergone a degree of cultural changes in the recent decades. This paper finds that unwelcoming neighborhoods, lack of education, financial insolvency and disproportionately low representation in the local government are the principal reasons behind these changes.

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Nirmal Kumar Bose, a doyen of Indian anthropology, was very much motivated by the life, philosophy and vision of Mahatma Gandhi. Bose may truly be considered as a Gandhian anthropologist. His journey on Gandhian philosophy started in the 1930s when he left the University and joined the Salt Satyagraha Movement launched by Gandhi. Bose was engaged in Gandhian social reconstruction work in a Harijan slum. The slum was inhabited by the so-called untouchable people, like the Mochi, Hadi and Bauri. Later, along with some of his friends, Bose published Harijan, a journal of Mahatma Gandhi, and a few other writings of Gandhi in Bengali in 1942, when Gandhi initiated the Quit India Movement. In 1946, after the communal strike, Gandhi came to Noakhali on a peace mission. He invited Bose to stay with him as a Bengali teacher and interpreter. During this period, Gandhi often deputed his personal secretary, Pyarelal, for peace work in some villages. During the absence of Pyarelal, Bose had to perform the secretariat work of Gandhi as well. All this moulded the life of Bose on Gandhian thought and philosophy.

PurposeAfter the fall of Burma on 10 March 1942 the British government extensively implemented scorched-earth policies in Bengal like denial of rice and boats. The British government had inadequate defense equipment to resist Japanese attack in Bengal. After the Japanese invasion supply of Burmese rice suddenly stopped. Faridpur district used to import rice from Burma. The Burmese conquest created an immediate and serious crisis for several rice imported districts and coastal districts of Bengal. Hence, none of the districts of East Bengal could escape its brutal clutches and severity recorded in Chittagong, Dhaka, Faridpur, Tripura, Noakhali, Bakargonj and so on.Design/methodology/approachAmong the affected districts of Bengal, Faridpur has been chosen as study area due to severity of famine. This study addresses the famine scenario of Faridpur. Data has been collected from primary and secondary sources. Content Analysis Research method is used to test reliability and validity of the data. Historical Analysis Research method has been followed in this study.FindingsFinding of the study shows that the government relief issues, ignorance of warnings, political nepotism and denial policy of British government intensified the famine of Faridpur district. The wartime tactics adopted by the colonial government aggravated the famine situation. This article has shed light on the government war time policy, activity and some impacts of British decline in Burma that fueled the famine in Faridpur district.Originality/valueThis study is my original research work and has not been published else where.