IT Live: Hasna Banu went missing at the age of eight on July in 2008. She was detached unfortunately from her parents from Rangamati in Chittagong. Due to the blessings of the National Database and relentless efforts of some government officials, she can be reunited with her parents after long 13 years.

Bangladesh Jatiya Tathya Batayan or Bangladesh National Portal (NP) is a national portal under the Access to Information (a2i) programme conducted by the Prime Minister's Office. It aims to provide information about all unions, upazilas, districts and
divisions of the country. It was launched on 7 March 2015 as a web portal containing 25,043 sites of government bodies in various tiers.

The reunion of Banu and her parents after a long 13-year gap made them very emotional, Chunarughat Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Satyajit Ray told BSS. Hailed from Matbaria in Pirojpur district, Banu's family went to Rangamati in quest of changing their fate, he mentioned.

But, Banu's family lost her dear daughter on the sidelines of their chase after switching fortune. Soon after the missing, a kind-hearted person of Raozan found Banu. Later he handed over the child Banu to Mahbubul Hasan, the then Assistant General Manager, Eastern Refinery, Chattogram on 12 August 2006. Subsequently, he looked after Hasna Banu introducing her everywhere as his own daughter, the UNO added.

At first, it was possible to identify two sisters in Mainimukh area of Langadu Upazila of Rangamati, whose parents' names matched the particulars given by Hasna Banu, he added. Based on this, he collected the information of the family with the help of
Langadu's UNO Moinul Abedin Masud and confirmed that one of their daughters was missing from Raozan 13 years back.

Dhaka, 25 December (campuslive24.com)//AZ