Life-In-Field Experience (LFE-201) Daily Activities Journal

COURSE TITLE: Life-In-Field Experience.

COURSE CODE: LFE-201

TOPIC:

Daily Activities Journal.

Submitted by:
NAME: Nowreen Farha Imam
ROLL NO: 1210687
SECTION: 09
SCHOOL OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE

Submitted to:
MOHHAMED ABDUL BATEN.
LECTURER, SESM
INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY, BANGLADESH.

SUBMISSION ON DATE: 08/02/2015 (SATURDAY)

Contents
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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION:......................................................................................... 3
Chapter 2 Description of the study area:....................................................................4
Climate.................................................................................................................... 4
Soil.......................................................................................................................... 4
Rainfall situation...................................................................................................... 4
Village Map:............................................................................................................. 5
Chapter 3 ACTIVITY JURNAL:....................................................................................... 6
DAY -01 ACTIVITY: JOURNEY FROM DHAKA TO RANGPUR:........................................6
DAY 02 - PRACTICS TO COLLECT HOUSE HOLDS INFORMATION:.............................8
DAY 03 & 04- BEGINNING OF THE SERVEYING& INTERVIEW:...................................9
DAY 05- VISITING TAJHAT JOMIDARBARI:................................................................11
History of Tajhat palace:..................................................................................... 11
Description of Tajhat Jamindar Bari:...................................................................11
Location of Tajhat Palace:...................................................................................12
DAY 6 - The Household Interview in Chandanpath village:....................................13
DAY 07-Discussion about CDP, Draw the Social Map & Village Map:.....................15
Time to play & fire Camp:...................................................................................... 16
DAY 08-Village market analysis & Visit vinno-jogot:..............................................18
Vinno-Jogot:........................................................................................................... 19
DAY 09-Sports fun \gala night:...............................................................................20
Day-10&11-CONCLUSION/End of the LFE journey:.................................................23
Chapter 4 LESSON LEARNED:................................................................................... 24

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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION:
Bangladesh is a small country of south Asia. There are many village in Bangladesh.
The villages have a distinctive culture of its own set of norms, values, beliefs and attitudes. A
significant portion of the countrys population lives in the village and most of them are below
poverty line.Poverty and Deprivation, run down huts, a pleasant environment filled with
greenery and hardworking people these are the ideas that build up the vision of the rural
Bangladesh in the minds of most city dwellers. But the real scenario is somewhat different. Now
a days the villagers seem to have brought a huge change in their perception, their ways of living
and their attitudes towards things. Like the urban people, Villagers are now concerned about their
lifestyle, education, their rights, the dawn of technical wonders and the ongoing modernization.
The only thing they lack is the opportunity to embrace them. They have been provided the same
kind of opportunities available to those who lives in urban areas .they would not be left this far
behind. But still life goes on in the villages on its own pace.

It is very important for everyone to get the idea about village people, their life style, culture,
believes, habits, feelings, attitude and their rights and economy. And for those information we
should go close to them and visit the villages and it is also very impotent for our new generation
who has no idea about villages and village people.

From that purpose Independent university, Bangladesh sends their students to rural area every
year to know about the village people and their culture. And the course name is LFE (Live-inField Experience). We the student of section 09 has been assigned to visit RANGPUR to collect
data and information from the local people of the particular area. Rangpur is one of the huge
populated districts in Bangladesh. We go one part of this huge district which is known as
THANGAMARA MOHILA SHOMOBAI SOMITI (TMSS) in the hurt of the town. There were
84 students which contains 42 pairs and 17 groups. Different pairs with different groups visited
three different villages. I enjoyed the village and the village people very much.

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Chapter 2 Description of the study area:

CLIMATE
June to August are the Monsoon months in Bangladesh. The occurrence of rainfall is
greatest at the season end in the month of August. The rain is heaviest in coastal and hill
areas compared to the plains. Dry season is between February and June. Barind tract gets
Monsoon rains and the climate is hot and humid with temperature variation of 25-35
degree Celsius in summer and 9-15 degree Celsius in winter. Its weather condition is
classified into 4 types: pre-Monsoon, Monsoon, post-Monsoon and winter. The mean
annual rainfall in Bangladesh is 2,300 mm. Rainfall in the Northwest region varies from
place to place and from year to year, and compares poorly with the rest of the country,
having an average of about 1,971 mm.

SOIL
The chandanpath union in Rangpur Sadar the soil is known to have a sandy stratum
below the rapidly permeable cultivatable top soil, resulting in soil moisture loss through
seepage. This increases cost of crop production through irrigation. The soils are also
known to be low in organic matter content, at below 1%. Healthy soils should have 2.55% organic matter for good fertility and productivity. Water retention in the river or
ponds is a benefit to the farmer as it reduces seepage loss from cropped land.

RAINFALL SITUATION
Rainwater is a very important source of natural water. It recharges groundwater and fills
dried surface water bodies. However, the monsoon rainfall is decreasing in the Northern
areas of Bangladesh. The following tables show the rainfall status in Rangpur Sadar. This
information was provided by the Bangladesh Metrological Department

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Figure 1. Deviation of monsoon (June-September) rainfall from normal over Rangpur Division during 1980-2010

VILLAGE MAP:

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Chapter 3 ACTIVITY JURNAL:

DAY -01 ACTIVITY: JOURNEY FROM DHAKA TO RANGPUR:
Journey start- 9.30am
Started from- IUB campus
Destination- Rangpur TMSS.
Lunch-3.30 AT BOGRA TMSS
Reached at Rangpur TMSS- 7pm
Conference- 9pm
Dinner- 10pm

I would like to thank Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) for having such a wonderful and
unique course through which I get the chance to learn and experience about the rural Bangladesh.
For making this program a successful one, I would like to thank my respected Faculty for their
excellence support.
At first day, I reached at 7 am in IUB. Then all of LFE members reached in 8am. 84 students
from different schools and different behaved & disciplines grouped together in the Section 9
(Ghost section) and Under the 5 amazing Faculty such as G.M.Wali Ullah (SCHOOL OF
BUSINESS),Abdul Baten (SESM), Shafiqul Alam (SCHOOL OF BUSINESS), Sadia Haque
(SCHOOL OF BUSINESS) and Tanvir Ahmed Haroon (SESM). And also with the 4 monitors
such as Asif Al-Maruf, Anika Tabassum Sadia, Jamir hossan and Sabrina Irin Nakby.

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Figure 01: JOURNEY from IUB for LFE on 02.01.2015

We started our journey from IUB campus Bashundhara R/A Dhaka towards Rangpur (TMSS)
which is known THANGAMARA MOHILA SOMOBAI SOMITI on 02nd January,
2015(FRIDAY).

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DAY 02 - PRACTICS TO COLLECT HOUSE HOLDS INFORMATION:

We have reached rangpur TMSS at Night 9 pm. The beautiful and big building at TMSS is lived
in front of Dhaka-Panchaghrah Road. In this building, I was lived at no-311 room with 7 of my
friends. The day of 2nd (3.01.2015), that day was rainy-day. We have 2 pair and go to
BANIAPARA to practices. How can we get information in unknown households.
Then we are divided in 5 members group in 17 teams to cover up three villages Chondonpath,
Shobdopuskuni and Rajendropur. Total students of 84, but our 5 member group is 12 and pair
group is 15. And we selected to Chandanpath. Then our Faculty instructed to collect at least 15
households head name, correspondence others name, their occupations, address, gps coordinates
and pic. Etc.

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DAY 03 & 04- BEGINNING OF THE SERVEYING& INTERVIEW:

On day three in cold weather with cats & dogs continuous rain our survey was start. Not only
day 03 but also at that situation randomly we faced some of our working days. We get wet and
we have to work it on. We take some household interview. People of the village are so helpful to
provide us such kinds of information we need from them.
As I mentioned before our room was the biggest of them all in the TMSS campus so when we
Had Shafiq sir along with Jamir and asif vi shouting and entering that "We are going to have to
Do a checkup open up your bags call your roommates it was a chaos we were all up and ready
Got our bags out and everything and then suddenly Walli sir enterd with a Mask on behind him
With a rally of every male student of the section 09 it was really a big surprise for us.

For a few moment we were all stunned like 'what the hell is happening" it took us a sec to grasp
The moment of the prank and then one after another the peoples just kept coming in. Soon it
Became a room of 50+ instead of 7 students.

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DAY 05- VISITING TAJHAT JOMIDARBARI:

At first talk to about this place where we had gone that day.

History of Tajhat palace:

Tajhat Jamidar Bari in rangpur district on of the important attractive Archaeological
patterns of the country. The founder of Tajhat Actual estate Mannalal was professional jeweler.
They came mahiganje & sate-led here. That time mahigang was a famous business city &
headquarter of Rangpur. Mahilal established a building at tajhat for business per-pus. The long
line of Mannalal Roy's relatives succession ends with a grand-grand-son, Giridharilal Roy. Since
Giridhari adopted Gobindalal because they had no children who succeeded to the estate in 1879.
After they came to live in Tajhat, because of his mass popularity they was Awarded the title of
'Raja' in 1885, 'Raja bahadur' in 1892 & 'Maharaja; in 1896. Raja Gobindolal met a tragic death
his own house in the work of an earthquake in 1897. After his died his son gopal lal ray bahadur
(1887-1955) got the actual state & start building the Tajhat jamindar bari. In 1917 construction of
the palace was completed. After the finish of the British rule when banned the Actual estate
practices in 1952 the building was gone under the department of agriculture, although it was used
for courthouse in the work of the 1980s. In the year 1987 it was turned in to a museum with
ancient inscriptions, art & coins from the area on display.
Description of Tajhat Jamindar Bari:
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This tow Stores and east faces building 76.20 m long in the front side. A 15.24m. Wide
staircase in the middle Leads directly above the portico to the 1st Floor made with white marble
which imported from Spain. The Tajhat Jamidar palace is crowned by a ribbed conical dome with
a tall octagonal neck in the midst of the roof supported by a series of slender semi-Corinthian
columns. This palace has 28 number of rooms. In the ground Floor there has four large room and
11 pair windows. And the main Room size is (145*123). On the south and north side there's
rounded pillar. In the front of the palace there is a fountain made by marble stone. From 1st Floor
Going directly to the second floor has an expanded staircase. The staircase decorated with
designed lamp-stand.
Location of Tajhat Palace:
Just south of the city of Rangpur lies the Tajhat palace. The place is located only three km
south-east from the Rangpur town.

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When we reached tajhat jamidar bari , we amazed the beautiful those environment. Visit
Tajhut Jomidarbari, There we saw lots of amazing things like SHETAKOT BEHAR, some old
traditional remarkable books like MAHAVARAT, PODANKODUT, and HORIVOCKTI
UDDIPON GRONTHO etc.

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DAY 6 - THE HOUSEHOLD INTERVIEW IN CHANDANPATH VILLAGE:

In day six we go to our area in Chandanpath union which is Modhopara and Paikarpara &
collecting data from the house. Maximum time we collect data form household women &also
sometime from the children &some other else.

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DAY 07-DISCUSSION ABOUT CDP, DRAW THE SOCIAL MAP & VILLAGE MAP:
At day seven, that is the most wired and challenging day to us. Because of social
map,GPS coordination and Household information collecting. But we completed our selected
household information in right time.
While visit the chandanpath (modhopara & paikanpara) village there a local boy draw a
village map on the soil to get us an idea to our whole group about their village.

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VILLAGERS HELP TO DRAW THE VILLAGE AND WE MADE SOCIAL MAP

TIME TO PLAY & FIRE CAMP:

We have lot of fun to our LFE journey. We played cricket, football, cheese, Ludu, Badminton,
Card, UNO, and Ceram etc... And our faculty also played Badminton, Football, Card, Ludu and
Cheese. We made a fire camp to relax our tension, tiredness, fun and unlimited happy. One of
TMSS stuff Jewel Ahmed, he was dancing with song.

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DAY 08-VILLAGE MARKET ANALYSIS & VISIT VINNO-JOGOT:

After we woke up we got our today's assignment which was mark analysis our topic was the
medicine stores. So we got ready and went out to the market in Soddopuskorini and we worked
in that market.
We went to shop from shop asking and gathering information about their medicine supply and
how they get it and how they accommodate with the costs the benefits and losses.
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Day eight we all go to visit a village market. There we survey medicine store such as
Allopathic medicine, homeo medicine, Kabiraz medicine etc. We collect many information about
those store. How they import there medicine one place to another place and how do they
marketing they product.

After coming back there we go to Vinno- jogot for visit to celebrate our holiday.

Market analysis

VINNO-JOGOT:

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Vinno jogot brings lots of fun to northwest of Bangladesh.It is one of the most
spectacular (kind of theme) parks in the country and has become a great tourist
attraction in Rangpur. It is about 100 acres acres. Vinno Jogot beautify by many rides.
This place take me to a daydream world.

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DAY 09-SPORTS FUN \GALA NIGHT:

The Day we called GALA NIGHT in the Life-In-Filed Experience(LFE-201) course.
Starting from the evening to till midnight we all student including monitors (ASIF,
NAKBI, ANIKA) and our respected five faculties all together have a great fun,
entertainment and some tremendous performance was perform by our friends like
Fashion, song dance, RAP, TMSS (JUWEL VAI), MOHAMMED ABDUL BATEN SIR
act& deliver a nice poetry, WALIULLAH SIR have his DJ perform with a energetic way.

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DAY-10&11-CONCLUSION/END OF THE LFE JOURNEY:

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When we joined this LFE sec 09 we didn't knew most of the peoples. We didn't knew if we will
Be able to blend in or how the experience of the LFE will be or how it will turn out. But as i
Wrote once in my introduction that i was glad that the system had the glitch on that day because
For that i got a chance to meet all these peoples, made new friends had this really awesome
Experience with them. This was a experience of a lifetime and i am really glad that I had a
Chance to experience it with the unknown peoples who in 12 days became my friends.

We after have finished our dinners get ready to leave the TMSS Rangpur. After whole night
journey we reached our IUB campus at 12 January morning and that is the end of our section-09
LFE-201 course. This course will remember inside my heart. Its really a mixed experience for
all of us because in our campus we didnt know another school student. Here we will have the
opportunity know among those students nearly and make a new friendship with them. So, thanks
to the IUB University to offer such an interesting course to feel the real Life-Experience-in-the
Field.

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Figure: 10: End of journey Pictures in section-09 LFE-201 course.

Chapter 4 LESSON LEARNED:

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1.
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Cooperate & Interact with the people.

Basic and a general knowledge were developing about the particular area.
Increase our knowing ability power.
It does also teach us how to survive in a different place, situation with lots of different
types of people.

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