Dowry system | Arsenic pollution | Garment Worker | Paragraph Group-5

1. Dowry system

Dowry means property or money brought by a bride to her husband when they get married. Nowadays the system of giving and taking dowry in marriage is more prevalent in Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, this is seen to be a major problem. In the Bangladeshi society, this system is treated as a serious problem. The wife is inhumanly tortured and killed by her husband for dowry. Most of the parents are poor. They cannot keep up the word they give before marrying off their daughters. This leads to chaos and hellish unhappiness. However, the first thing to be done to stop this malpractice is to grow awareness among all. The movement against the dowry system should declare right now. We cannot get rid of this social vice by taking social reformative works urgently.

2. Arsenic pollution

Arsenic pollution means arsenic-contaminated water. Of late arsenic pollution has become one of the most health hazards in Bangladesh. By drinking arsenic water, people get the disease. Arsenic is a fatal poison. It has been deposited in that layer of the soil from here our tube-wells pump out water. As a result in most areas of Bangladesh, tube-well water is contaminated with arsenic. Arsenic pollution has made the scarcity of drinking water acute though our country is water-rich. The irony of fate is that “water, water everywhere nor a drop to drink.” It is a hard nut to crack. Our ignorant people are drinking arsenic polluted water from tube wells and are human being affected by arsenicosis. Those who do not eat fish and vegetables are easily affected. Arsenic is such a poison that damages all the vital organs ore after another resulting in the subsequent death o the sufferer. Arsenicosis has no remedy nor has it any antidote. Hence arsenic pollution demands the utmost attention. An affected person should drink arsenic-free water and take vitamins A, C, E to come round. Arsenic polluted water has been ter5med as the killing water. There has been a worldwide awareness of this problem. Aids from different corners are reaching. Deep tube wells rainwater, reservoirs, surface water treatment, etc may be the pragmatic measures to minimize the problem to a great extent.

 3.Garment Worker

Persons working in a garment factory are garments workers. An ordinary garment worker in our country leads a very laborious life. His/her day starts very early in the morning and ends at about 10 p.m. She/he starts for a working place at about 7 am. She/he is to pass a long way every day to reach the factory. She/he goes to the factory on foot. Sometimes on the way to the destination, she /he is teased with slang words from various corners. He/she is to tolerate all bad comments. In the factory, he/she works in a congested room. There is no seat to sit upon. She eats the poor lunch with her colleagues in the factory. Almost every day he/she takes his/her lunch from home. She is given a break for half an hour. Within this time she cannot take lunch from her house. She works in the factory for long hours till deep at night. She likes working in a factory rather than in a household. She is used to doing overwork. Though he/she gets a very poor salary, she/he expends it very wisely. She/he leads a very simple life. In a word, a major portion of national income depends upon his/her hard work. So he/she should have better opportunities in the factory and society to lead a better life.