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Rokeya Day toady

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Published: 10:06, 9 December 2022  
Rokeya Day toady

Begum Rokeya Day is being celebrated today (Friday) to commemorate the contribution of Begum Rokeya.

He was a pioneer of Bengali women’s education and a social reformer for ensuring equal rights for women and men.

Begum Rokeya was born in village Pairaband of Rangpur on December 9, 1880 and died on the same day in 1932 in Kolkata.

The great woman struggled all through her life for establishing women’s rights, freedom, education, empowerment and economic emancipation creating a renaissance in the then highly conservative and British-ruled colonial society in the sub-continent.

The birth and death anniversaries of Begum Rokeya are officially being observed as Rokeya Day since 1994 at Pairaband village under Mithapukur upazila in Rangpur.

In observance of the day, ministry of women and children affairs has taken programmes, including awarding ‘Begum Rokeys Padak’ to five women for their outstanding contribution to empowering women in the country.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as the chief guest will hand over the ‘Begum Rokeya Padak, 2022’, to the recipients at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in Dhaka at 10:00am.

President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have issued separate messages paying respect to the memory of Begum Rokeya for her contribution to spread education for women.
 

Dhaka/Mukul