Dhankuranis, mostly women and children, are from the ultra poor in rural Bangladesh. Equipped with spades, spatulas and baskets, they look out for ratholes in vast croplands during the Aman harvesting season.
A union parishad chairman was sued today for irregularities of distributing money under the Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) and General Relief (GR) programmes at Thakurgaon's Haripur upazila. Naresh Chandra Barman, office assistant and computer operator of upazila project implementation office, filed the case with Haripur Police Station against Dangipara union parishad Chairman