Local government, rural development and cooperative advisor. A. F. Hasan Arif said that the campaign should be emphasized to increase the practice of hand washing. Family awareness should be increased for a child to develop a habit of cleanliness from childhood. He said that programs should be taken to keep people from every level of society clean Field level programs on cleanliness should be spread to schools and colleges as well as madrasas. The advisor said these things in his speech as the chief guest at the discussion meeting organized by the Directorate of Public Health and Engineering on the occasion of ‘World Hand Washing Day’ on Tuesday (15 October 2024 AD).

In order to involve the public at all levels of the country and increase awareness in achieving the sustainable development goals, the initiative of the local government department has celebrated ‘World Handwashing Day 2024’ today in Bangladesh along with other countries around the world. At the beginning of the program, a minute’s silence was observed to pay respect to all the martyrs who died in the anti-discrimination student movement in July-August.

Why are clean hands still important The discussion meeting held in front of this theme was presided over by Secretary (Routine Duties) of Local Government Department. Nazrul Islam.

UNICEF Bangladesh Representative Deepika Sharma and WHO Deputy Representative Rajesh Narwal were present as guests of honour. Tushar Mohan Sadhu Khan, Chief Engineer of Directorate of Public Health and Engineering, gave a welcome speech at the discussion meeting and thanked the Additional Secretary of Local Government Department and Managing Director of Dhaka Wasa. Fazlur Rahman.