Independent university, Bangladesh

MD. Sajibul islam

ID-1430545
Course- Lfe201
Section-4

Submitted to-Dr. Tawhid Monzur

Submitted by- Sajibul islam
Submission date-20-05-2019

LIVE IN FIELD EXPERIENCE

Final report
Detailed analysis of kanda para’s social,economic
and health condition
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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

May 20, 2019

Dr. Tawhid Monzur

Department of Environmental Management.
Independent University, Bangladesh
Bashundhara R/A, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Subject: Letter of Transmittal for the LFE Report.

Dear Sir,

With due respect, it is my pleasure to present this LFE report on the study conducted during
2019 in BLC, Mymensingh organized by Independent University, Bangladesh.

I was survey in kandapara . I have tried to learn about the demography, geography, economy
and agriculture, Education, health and sanitation, and rural market analysis of the village
through questionnaire survey and observation. Also visited 3 paras to know about this village.
It was a tough task to communicate with rural people but I have enjoyed LFE with my group
member and other students. I believe that I learn many things practically through this course.
I hope that the enclosed information will be helpful to get a clear idea about kandapara.

I therefore, look forward to you that my report will be able to achieve your approval. If you
need any assistance for further clarification of the report, we will be pleased to meet any
queries.

Sincerely,

MD. Sajibul islam

ID-1430545

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First of all, I want to say, we are very delightful to have a special program (Live in a Live in
Field Experience), which is a very interesting, thoughtful and unique course in Independent
University, Bangladesh (IUB). We are very grateful to IUB for giving as such a practical
experience of the rural life of Bangladesh through the LFE. I really appreciate the host
organization BLC, Mymensingh for giving us such an opportunity to explore the area and for
helping and guiding us throughout the course and to for the support of accommodation, food
facilities, and security.

My special regard goes to Dr.Tawhid monzur (SESM), MS. Kashfia Ameen (SB), MS.
Bushra Sanjana (SB)- who have supported us and helped us all the way through and took care
of all the problems faced by us during the program .Special thanks go to the LFE monitors as
they were also very cooperative and helpful. All of them have guided us throughout the
course session to achieve our success in collecting the data.

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Contents

LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.............................................................................................................0
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.....................................................................................................................2
Introduction:..........................................................................................................................................4
Venue BLC, Mymensingh:....................................................................................................................5
Objective of lfe:.....................................................................................................................................7
METHODOLOGY:...............................................................................................................................8
Survey area brief discerption:................................................................................................................9
Village profile of Kandapara:..............................................................................................................10
Market Analysis:.................................................................................................................................11
Value Chain:........................................................................................................................................12
Types of Consumer products:..............................................................................................................13
Product price Comparison:..................................................................................................................14
Child Marriage:...............................................................................................................................15
Health awareness:............................................................................................................................16
Women rights:.................................................................................................................................17
BRAC Sericulture:...........................................................................................................................18
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................19
Reference :...........................................................................................Error! Bookmark not defined.

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Introduction:

“LFE bridges the gap between our historical knowledge and the present through an empirical
study of the roots of our culture”.

We the people have a nature to look forward. Every day we are getting detached from our natural
beauty to technological advancement. But we always forget that out true origin lies in the rural
beauty. “So sometimes we have to stop and smell the roses”. Our University “Independent
University, Bangladesh” is the only university that arranges a unique program, “Life infield
Experience (LFE)”. We the young generation are the backbone of the country and we must know
how the great majority of the people live. A large portion of our country is directly and indirectly
related with the villagers. But it is also true that, the life blood of our country (Villagers) is afflicted
with Poverty, Malnutrition, Illiteracy and unconscious about health. LFE-Live-In Field Experience
is one of the distinctive courses offered by IUB to its students. The course is designed to impress
upon young minds the socio-economic realities of the rural Bangladesh as the majority portion of
our population live in the village in the rural areas.

Through this course, we have an opportunity to get direct encounter with rural people on whom the
country stands. Most of the young generation has little or no idea about gram Bangla, after doing
this LFE program, we get to know how the majority of the people live. We should always bear in
mind that the problem we face and observe in the urban areas does not reflect the situation of the
whole country. It is the rural areas which reflect the scenario of the whole country. LFE provides us
the chance to overcome and minimize the gap of understanding and make familiar with the rural
areas. We are really grateful to the authority of IUB for providing us the prospect to get this
authentic experience.

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Venue BLC, Mymensingh:

Our venue was in BRAC Learning Centre (BLC), kandapara, Mymensingh. BRAC, an
international development organization based in Bangladesh, is the largest nongovernmental
development organization in the world, measured by the number of employees and the
number of people it has helped. BRAC concentrated on community development through
village development programs that included agriculture, fisheries, cooperatives, rural crafts,
adult literacy, health and family planning, vocational training for women and construction of
community centre. Considering favorable adult learning and other training related facilities as
the preconditions for making training effective, BLD offers the ideal learning centers with:

Trainees’ hostel,Cafeteria
Adequate number of Class Room
Air Conditioned Class Room
Computer and Language Lab
Library Facility
Auditorium, Internet Facility
Multi Purpose Hall Room
Multi Media ( Audio Visual, Computer, Microphone, Overhead Projector)
Big play Ground, Beautiful Garden
Quality Cooking
Full time (24 hours) Security
All Time power Supply
Comfortable Bed Room with Attached Bathrooms
Indoor and Outdoor Games

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This place is so beautiful and peoples who are working in this organization are very friendly
and helpful. The atmosphere of BLC is very temperate. In this training center BRAC provide
foods for all people in the organization. They maintain time very strictly. Some people live
here and receive education. BRAC's education program provides non-formal primary
education to those left out of the formal education system, especially poor, rural, or
disadvantaged children, and drop-outs. They help women to educate herself and make her a
self reliant lady. It provides loans to mostly poor, landless, rural women.

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Objective of lfe:

The main object of IUB to conduct LFE is to make familiar the students with the rural life
and give some personal real and field experience to them. To achieve the intent of LFE, IUB
planned to conduct a research by its students in some rural areas. The IUB students have to be
made aware of this situation, so that they began to think of ways to solve the problems and
thereby open up opportunities for further social and economic development. The overall
objectives of the LFE-201 courses are:

1. Marketing Analysis.
2. Rural Economy and Finance.
3. Village Technology.
4. Women empowerment.
5. Health and Sanitation.

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METHODOLOGY:

The report more or less followed an anthropological approach of investigating the

information from the field and thus the amount of qualitative data is higher. We collected
data from two sources;

 Primary Source.
 Secondary Source.

Primary Data: Through observation and interviews with the villagers we collected
information to prepare out report. Structured questionnaire, unstructured interview,
observation, participant observation etc are primary sources of data collection.

Secondary Data: We collected our secondary data from BRAC Learning Centre (BLC),
website, as well as union porisod website , journals and articles on rural life.

We have also conducted a primary survey applying questionnaire method for collecting the
necessary data from the villagers. The relevant data is collected from the primary sources and
also from the secondary sources.

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Survey area brief discerption:

Our journey was start from Brac Learning Center (BLC). The village was selected by our
honorable faculty member where every group was placed in different Para of that village for
carrying out survey work. Our course instructor along with the help of BLC authority
selected the villages. We were assigned to Kandapara. The village is on the east south side of
BLC. It was approximately one and half km away from BLC and takes 20 minutes to reach.
The village is situated left beside the Shombugong road.

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Name of the village Kandapara

Union Kandapara
District Mymensing
Division Mymensing
Location 9 kilometer from the main
Post office Shombugong
Total population More then 1275
Voter 7654
No of the household Approximately 1700
Gender Male-55%,Female-45%
Religion 100% Muslim

Village profile of Kandapara:

Mosque 4
School and Madrasa 2
Types of Houses Brick House, Semi Pacca House, Ten shade
House
Sanitary latrine Ring slab, Septic Tank and most of the
family
have no well sanitary latrine.
Electricity Facilities Present in most of the houses.

literacy rate of kandapara

18%

20%
62%

Age 1 to 18 Age 19 to 35 Age 36 to 70

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Market Analysis:

We visited Shobugong haat to know the current economy of Kandapara, Mymensing. We

tried to know how many type of products sell in this bazaar and how retailer buy this product.
We also talked with some retailer and wholesaler to know the supply system of products. We
also observed the behavior of the people of the village market and what types of consumer
good is available in the village market. On specific week days people go to Shobugong haat.
Other than that people buy the irregular commodities from nearby village shop. A shopkeeper said
that their daily sale 1000-1200 and profit will be 200-250. Basic demographic information of
“Kandapara” has been collected during our field survey.

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Value Chain:

Value chain is when a product are moving from producer to whole seller and whole seller
take to somewhere else and sell it to a retailers and from the retailer finally the produce
reaches to the final consumer. Form the producer to the final consumers the products changes
it value like all the sellers they keep some profits and then the transportation cost are added.
That’s why the price of the product changes according to place and product. Following steps
we will try to show in our report

Packaging Wholesaler consumer

Production Transportation
Value chain Retailer

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Types of Consumer products:

Convenience Goods: Convenience goods are the goods which people buy in minimum shopping
efforts.We saw many convenience goods such as rice , soybean oil

Shopping Goods: Shopping goods are the goods which are not frequently bought by the
buyers. Village people don’t buy these products frequently as they are a bit expensive in
price. Products are: shampoo, beauty cream , coconut , detergent etc.

Specialty Goods: Some specialty goods which are expensive and the villagers have to put a
lot of shopping efforts to buy these products.

Unsought Goods: The products which are not bought usually by the consumers. At a shop of
the moddho para we saw a shop where they were selling sandalina soap.

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Product price Comparison:

Dhaka Mymensingh
products Price
Rice 55-60 tk (per kg)
Milk 65 -100 tk (per litre)
Meat ( Beef ) 560-700 tk (per kg)
Egg 30-35 tk (per hali)

In this village market I have found some fake products looks like a real product at first look.

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Child Marriage:

Child marriage is defined by global organizations as a formal marriage or informal union

entered into by an individual before reaching the age of 18. Causes of child
marriages include poverty, bride price, dowry, cultural traditions, laws that allow child marriages.
social pressures, regional customs, fear of remaining unmarried, illiteracy, and perceived
inability of women to work for money

Child Marriage in Kandapara

36%

64%

Before Liberation War After Liberation War

Most of the female kandapara, married off below 18. Many female villagers are illiterate,
they don’t have much knowledge about health issues so got pregnant in the teenage. For this
thing they face many health issues, domestic violence. Because of early marriage they don’t
have knowledge of education so poverty occurred.

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Health awareness:

57% village people suffer from mental turmoil there are some reasons.

 Loan: Most of the people taking loan.

 Natural disaster: When the natural disaster spoiled their crops.
 Crop damage: When crops damage for any kind of incident.
 Baby girl: when they give birth a baby girl.

House Waste
No one of the village people are use dustbin or recycling system for house waste. Every people
throw their waste back of the house, road side or toilet side. This waste pollutes their environment
produce bad smell, mosquito, blowfly, disease, germs.
80% people don’t use sanitary toilet. They doing loan and build building but don’t build any
sanitary toilet. They said it’s not mandatory or any big issue.

Health issues in kandapara

10%

40%

50%

age 1 to 18 age 19 to 35 age 36 to 75

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Women rights:

The status of women in Bangladesh is defined by struggle to massive improvement over this
year. After the liberation war have seen increased political empowerment for women, better job
prospects, improved education and the adoption of new laws to protect their rights.

In kandapara women, all most all the women are the victim of early marriage. We didn’t find any
mother who study at least class 5. We survey some household and got information.

Most of the village women can cast vote. But their education knowledge has no up to the mark.
Almost every woman married of when they were studying in class 2 or 3. And others never went
to school. They were going to village moktob for study The Holy Quran. But now a days its
changing, they send their both boy and girl for studying but the custom of child marriage is not
stop yet.

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BRAC Sericulture:

We visited BRAC sericulture project. I saw their how to produce cotton by silk worm.
Production of silk occurs in four distinct steps: cultivating mulberry trees, rearing silkworms
in these trees, producing yarn from those silkworms and weaving the yarn to produce fabric.
This process is carried out by marginal farmers cultivating mulberry, cocoon rearers, yarn
reelers, and weavers. At BRAC Sericulture, it is mainly women who fill these positions,
although the enterprise struggles to maintain a consistent workforce because it tends to lose a
proportion of its workers to the seasonal fruit cultivation. It was grate experience.

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Conclusion:

The overview of the fact that drew the conclusion was that the people of this specific village
Kandapara needs attention on issues mostly covers the fact that include health, education and
economic development.
There are many changes that will always bring positive and negative impacts that will work
for that development of the society.
The advantages of being able to observe the market of Shombugonj was to analyse mostly the
part of opportunities for future development on overall economic growth and condition of
Mymensingh.
The possible suggestions would be to decrease and control the overall the rate of over
population, increasing awareness regarding health issues of the rural people by possible
campaigns and seiners and improving the sanitation problem .

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Reference:
 www.mymensingh.gov.bd.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mymensingh
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_change
 https://placesmap.net/BD/BLC-Mymensingh-Brac-Learning-Center--
41649/

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