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THuRSDAY, JANuARY 7, 2021
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Control law and order situation
without creating panic among common
people - Magura police super Zohirul
The wall of a house under construction for homeless shelter project collapsed in Rampura
village of Chukaibari union in Dewanganj upazila.
Photo: Shamsul Huda
Homeless shelter project collapsed
in Jamalpur
Rokibul Hoque Dipu, Magura
Correspondent: I like to control law
and order situation without creating
panic among common people , told
newly posted police super in Magura
Muhammad Zohirul Islam . He spoke
in a view exchanging meeting with
journalists .
Police super told , drug addiction has
turned into a fatal disease. Only law
enforcing is not sufficient to control
drug . I would like to rehabilitate drug
peddlers and traders as well as enforce
law against them . Social movement
will be run to motivate the drug addicts
Police super added , no other identity
of culprits will be considered . The
misdeed of culprit matters to me.
Finally he told, they will be treated
with minus tolerance rather than zero
tolerance who are fundamentalist and
Magura Muhammad Zohirul Islam in a view exchanging meeting with journalists
Photo : Rokibul Hoque Dipu
Shamsul Huda, Dewanganj
correspondent: An old woman
named Mamata Bewa (60) was injured
when the wall of a house under
construction of a homeless shelter
project collapsed in Rampura village of
Chukaibari union in Dewanganj upazila.
The ten feet high wall fell on her and the
whole body of the old woman was
covered with bricks. The incident took
place in front of Tarnati Rubel (25).
While trying to rescue his Nani, Rubel
also got injured in his leg. The incident
took place at 1:30 pm last Saturday. The
people of area admitted Mamata to
Dewanganj Sadar Hospital.
Patient's physical condition was
critical and she was transferred to the
district hospital. She was transferred
from there again for better treatment
and is currently admitted to
Mymensingh Charpara Hospital.
Speaking about Mamta's physical
condition, grand-daughter Parvin (24)
said that her grandmother now can
speaks softly, move both hands.
News of the death had already spread
from the hospital twice. Relatives worry
that even if Mamata survives, she will
spend the rest of her life by lying in bed.
Locals complain that the Dewanganj
Upazila Project Implementation
Committee is constructing 172 houses
under the homeless Shelter Project
under the chairmanship of the Upazila
Nirbahi Officer. From there, the house
work is to be done under the supervision
of the Upazila Chairman and the Union
Chairman, but Shyamal Chandra group,
the proprietor of Durga Enterprise, is
working on 100 houses through special
lobbying.
Not every house has been built from
the beginning using quality construction
materials like gravel, sand, rod, cement.
The contractor does not make any
inquiries of the works. This is how Durga
Enterprise is working. District
Administrator Enamul Haq visited the
demolished house. During the
inspection, the deputy commissioner
went to see another house nearby. He
informed that a three-member inquiry
committee has been constituted by
A.D.C Shafiqul Islam in this incident.
Action will be taken against those who
are found to be corrupt in the
investigation. At the end of the visit, he
went to see Mamata Bewa at the hospital
and took charge of her treatment.
15 labourers, family
members get
financial support in
Rajshahi
RAJSHAHI : Some 15
occupational labourers and
family members were given
financial support worth
Taka 3.90 lakh aimed at
facilitating them to
overcome their financial
hardship.
The support was provided
on behalf of the Bangladesh
Labourers Welfare
Foundation under the
Ministry of Labour and
Employment for various
purposes including
occupational illness and
fatalities of the institutional
and non-institutional level
employees.
Rajshahi District
Administration at its
conference hall distributed
the bank cheques among the
enlisted persons of four
districts in Rajshahi region
on Tuesday afternoon.
Deputy Commissioner
Abdul Jalil accompanied by
Additional Deputy
Commissioner Shariful
Haque, Divisional Director
of the Department of Labour
Enamul Haque and Deputy
Inspector General of the
Department of Inspection
for Factories and
Establishments (DIFE)
Mahfuzul Haque Bhuiyan
distributed the financial
support.
Speaking on the occasion,
Abdul Jalil said the present
government is pledged to
ensure occupational safety
and legitimate rights. To this
end, the government under
the dynamic and visionary
leadership of Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina has been
working relentlessly.
He said the workers play a
vital role in the country's
economic development.
"But, they remained
neglected in occupational
health. They met accidents
several times while on duty,
causing a loss to the national
economy," he said.
The newly constructed four-storey modern post bungalow of the district
council has been inaugurated in Monpura upazila of Bhola district. Mr.
Abdullah Al Islam Jakob MP, Chairman, Parliamentary Standing
Committee on the Ministry of Youth and Sports on Wednesday
Photo : Taybur Rahman (Tuhin)
No development to stop during
Sheikh Hasina's tenure : MP Jakob
Taybur Rahman (Tuhin), Char
Fashion Monpura Correspondent: The
newly constructed four-storey modern post
bungalow of the district council has been
inaugurated in Monpura upazila of Bhola
district. Mr. Abdullah Al Islam Jakob MP,
Chairman, Parliamentary Standing
Committee on the Ministry of Youth and
Sports inaugurated the 4-room post bungalow
at 11 a.m. on Wednesday (January 6).
At the same time, Jakob said no
development will stop during the tenure of
Sheikh Hasina's government. The building
was constructed at a cost of around Tk 3
crore with the district council's own funds.
Monpura Upazila Awami League President
and Upazila Chairman Mrs. Selina Akhter
Chowdhury presided over the inauguration
ceremony of the newly constructed Dak
Bungalow building. Also present on the
occasion were Upazila Mahila Vice
Chairman Parveen Akhter Rebu, Upazila A-
League General Secretary and North
Sakuchia UP Chairman Md Zakir Hossain.
AKM Shahjahan, vice-president of Upazila
A-League, Monir Miah, Upazila Nirbahi
Officer, Officer-in-Charge of Monpura Police
Station and other leaders and workers of the
organization were present.
One held with 995 grams
of heroin in C'nawabganj
CHAPAINAWABGANJ : Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested an alleged drug peddler with
995 grams of heroin from Shibganj upazila in the district Tuesday night.
The arrested person was identified as Md. Abdul Matin, 35 of Bholamari Chandpur village
under Shahbajpur union of Shibganj upazila of the district.
RAB said, an operation team of RAB-5 from Chapainawabganj camp, on secret
information, conducted a raid at Hajarbighi Telipara village under Shahbajpur union of the
upazila at 7:45 pm and arrested Abdul Matin with the heroin. Later, the arrested person was
handed over to the police.
Newly-appointed Rangamati Superintendent of Police (SP)Mir Muddasser Hossain held an
exchange meeting with journalists working in Rangamati. At the Polwel Cafeteria in Rangamati
this exchange meeting was held on Tuesday. Police officers at the meeting and Rangamati Press
Club President Shawkat Hossain Rubel and general secretary Anwar Al Haque, Co-worker print
and electronic media journalists were present.
Photo: Md.Shaqfiqur Rahman
Potato farming exceeds target by
2.63 percent in Rajshahi division
RAJSHAHI : Potato farming has
exceeded the target by 2.63 percent
during the current season in Rajshahi
division because of mounting interests
among the farmers in general to the
vegetable crop farming, reports BSS.
The latest official data said the
Department of Agriculture Extension
(DAE) has set a target of producing
around 37.58 lakh tonnes of potato from
1.60 lakh hectares of land in all eight
districts under the division during the
current Rabi season.
DAE Additional Director Sirajul Islam
said target has been set to produce 13.61
lakh tonnes of potato from 57,677
hectares of land in four districts under
Rajshahi Agricultural Zone, while 23.98
lakh tonnes from 1.02 lakh hectares in
four other districts of Bogura zone.
But, fortunately, the farmers have
brought around 1.64 lakh hectares of
land consisting 60,721 hectares in
Rajshahi zone and 1.03 lakh hectares in
Bogura zone taking advantage of the
suitable climatic condition and other
requisite facilities provided by the
government, he added.
Meanwhile, the newly harvested
potatoes have been appearing in the local
markets abundantly for the last couple of
weeks making both the farmers and
consumers happy.
"I'm buying newly appeared potatoes
every day at Taka 40 per kilogram from
vendors," said Ambia Ferdousi Khanom,
a housewife of Boaliapara in Rajshahi
city, adding she's happy over the fresh
vegetable.
Ashraf Ali, a farmer of Hatkanpara
village under Durgapur Upazila, has
cultivated potatoes on 35 bigha of land.
He's happy over his present farming
condition. Ali told BSS that many of his
co-villagers are getting lucrative market
price of the crop at present.
Altab Hossain, 54, another farmer of
Mougachhi village under Mohanpur
Upazila, has cultivated the crop on
around 170 bigha of land in Krishnapur
area of Tanore Upazila.
"I had cultivated the cash crop on 110
bigha of land in the same area in the
previous season. I had harvested around
8,800 mounds of potato and my profit
was around Taka one crore after selling
those," said Hossain. He's also very much
hopeful about this year's farming.
Like the previous year, Ershad Mondal,
another farmer of the same upazila, has
brought around 100 bigha of land under
potato farming. He said the potato is
being sold at around Taka 1,400 to 1,500
per mound in wholesale markets, which
is much higher than the previous years.
Many other commercial farmers are seen
passing their busy times in nursing their
cultivation plots at present for catching
the lucrative market price.Mijanur
Rahman, an operator of deep-tube-well
in Krishnapur village, said the farmers
are seen cultivating potatoes more
instead of Boro paddy in the Barind area
and the Tanore and Godagari Upazilas in
particular.
He identically mentioned that the
farmers are interested in potato farming
as it's being adjudged as a less-irrigation
consuming crop than the boro paddy,
which is a good sign in terms of lessening
the gradually mounting pressure on
underground water in the dried barind
area.
More than 12.58 lakh community
people of 2.66 lakh households are also
being motivated and encouraged
towards farming of various less-water
consuming crops including potato to
reduce the pressure on underground
water with intervention of the 'Integrated
Water Resource Management (IWRM)'
project. Simultaneously, commercial
potato farming has been expanded to the
dried lands in massive ways during the
last couple of years in the vast Barind
tract as a result of promoting irrigation
facilities by the Barind Multipurpose
Development Authorities (BMDA).
3 lakh pieces of blankets distributed
in Rangpur division
RANGPUR : The government already distributed three lakh pieces of blankets
among cold-stricken poor, distressed, disabled and transgender people in Rangpur
division.
Officials said the blankets and other warm clothes are being distributed in brief
functions arranged abiding by the health directives in the division in the wake of
the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
So far, the Prime Minister's Relief Fund has allocated over 2.76 lakh pieces of
blankets for distribution among cold-hit people of all eight districts in Rangpur
division. Besides, the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief has allocated
Taka 5-lakh for each district administration and Taka 6-lakh for each upazila
administration in addition to allocations for municipalities to purchase blankets
and warm clothes for the purpose.
In Rangpur, distribution of 51,600 pieces of blankets allocated by the Prime
Minister's Relief Fund was completed among cold-stricken poor and distressed
people to mitigate their sufferings across the district.
The Divisional Commissioner, Deputy Commissioners, Upazila Nirbahi Officers,
mayors of different municipalities, upazila and union chairmen and public
representatives are continuing distribution of the blankets and warm clothes.
"Meanwhile, 460 pieces of blankets, allocated by the Prime Minister's Relief
Fund, were distributed among cold-stricken people in each union of all 58 upazilas
of the division," Divisional Commissioner Abdul Wahhab Bhuiyan told BSS.
He said the government would continue distribution of blankets among cold-hit
people of all eight districts in Rangpur division throughout the winter season to
stand beside them and mitigate their sufferings.