14-01-2021

THuRSDAY, JANuARY 14, 2021
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Family of visually impaired
receives PM’s gift
Md. Abu Zobaer Al-Mukul, Associate Professor, Department of English, Kurigram Govt. College,
Kurigram as the chief guest addressed the inaugural function of English language course at the conference
room of Dinajpur Technical Training Center on Tuesday.
Photo: Tajadur Rahman
English, Japanese language courses inaugurated
at Dinajpur Technical Training Center
S M SAIFUL ISLAM, RANINA-
GAR CORRESPONDENT:
Mafia Brishti (22) and her
younger brother Ashiq (12)
of Khatreshwar village in
Raninagar upazila are
visually impaired.
Raninagar Upazila Nirbahi
Officer Al-Mamun came to
notice when the news was
published in the daily
Karatoa on September 1 last
year with the headline that
they want to enlighten their
minds even if they do not
have eyesight.
At his suggestion,
Chamena Bibi, the mother
of a visually impaired, made
a written request to the
Naogaon Deputy
Commissioner seeking
financial assistance. When
the application reached the
office of the Prime Minister,
a charger van was given to
the poor and helpless
family as a gift from the
Prime Minister on the
occasion of Mujib Year.
It is learned that two of
the four sons and daughters
of van driver Amjad
Hossain of Khatreshwar
Khandaker Para village in
Sadar union of Raninagar
upazila are born blind. Of
them, Mafia and Ashiq are
the youngest. From the
time of their birth, helpless
father Amjad Hossain
continued to try to get his
two sons and daughters
treated in different eye
hospitals across the
country, but due to
financial constraints, he
could not continue. Mafia
was admitted to PHT
Primary School in Rajshahi
at the age of seven with the
help of a relative. In 2016,
she passed SSC with a GPA
of 3.74. He passed HSC
with GPA 4.00 in 2016 and
is currently studying in the
Faculty of Social Sciences at
Chittagong University.
Visually impaired younger
brother Ashiq is studying in
a school in Rajshahi. Father
Amjad Hossain Khandaker
was the sole earner of the
family. He used to drive a
van to support his family.
The van was stolen on
September 2 last year. He
died of a heart attack on
September 12 in mourning
the loss of his van.
With the help of this
family, they will get a
charger van as a gift from
the Prime Minister, said
Brishti's mother Chhamena
Bibi. Deputy Commissioner
Harun-ur-Rashid handed
over the van to the visually
impaired family at
Raninagar Upazila
Parishad premises on
Monday noon under the
chairmanship of Upazila
Nirbahi Officer Al Mamun.
Among others, Upazila
Parishad Chairman
Freedom Fighter Abdur
Rauf Dulu, Women Vice
Chairman Farida Begum,
Vice Chairman Jarjis Hasan
Mithu, Agriculture Officer
Shahidul Islam, Senior
Fisheries Officer Shilpi Roy,
Upazila Engineer Shah Md
Shamsul Haque and Project
Implementation Officer
Mehedi Hasan were also
present at the occasion.
TAJADUR RAHMAN, DINAJPUR CORRESPONDENT:
There is no alternative to making
oneself proficient in Bengali language
as well as English language education.
To strengthen the position as a middleincome
country, one need to become
more mature in speaking and
practicing English.
The chief guest said this at the
inaugural function of English language
course at the conference room of
Dinajpur Technical Training Center on
Tuesday afternoon. He added that in
order to get a well-paying job at home
and abroad, one has to make oneself
more proficient in English. If you want
3.89 lakh tonnes
garlic yield expected
in Rajshahi division
RAJSHAHI: Around
3.89 lakh tonnes of garlic
yield are expected to be
harvested from around
46,117 hectares of land in
all eight districts of
Rajshahi division during
the current season, reports
BSS.
Target has been set to
produce around 2.63 lakh
tonnes of garlic from
31,260 hectares of land in
four districts under
Rajshahi Agricultural Zone,
while another 1.27 lakh
tonnes from 14,957
hectares of land in four
other districts under
Bogura Agricultural Zone.
Sirajul Islam, Additional
Director of the Department
of Agricultural Extension
(DAE), said all possible
measures were adopted to
attain the production target
in the region this season.
He said farmers here are
showing interest in garlic
farming as they are getting
bumper production and
fair price of the cash crops
using an eco-friendly
method.
Now, he said, the farmers
are passing very busy days
in garlic cultivation and
they are expecting bumper
production of garlic this
year due to favourable
weather.
Ajahar Ali, a farmer of
Halidagachhi village under
Charghat Upazila, had
cultivated garlic on a 30-
decimal land using the zero
tillage method on trial basis
in 2018 and he got a
bumper yield. He
cultivated the cash crop on
three bighas of land
following the year.
After spending Taka
5,400 in garlic farming, Ali
got sale-proceeds worth
Taka 1.20 lakh and he
earned a profit of Taka
65,000 in 2019, which
inspired him to boost the
farming to six bighas of
arable land this year.
Afaz Uddin, a garlic
farmer of Shilmaria village
in Puthia Upazila, said they
used to cultivate garlic after
digging the land in the past.
But now many farmers
have started garlic
cultivation without digging
the land.
to be established in life, you must learn
English well. There is no substitute for
learning English in today's age of
technology. Engr. Md. Abdul Wadud
Mondal, Principal, Dinajpur
Polytechnic Institute, Dinajpur was the
chief guest at the occasion.
Md. Abu Zobaer Al-Mukul, Associate
Professor, Department of English,
Kurigram Govt. College, Kurigram was
the keynote speaker at the occasion.
During the time, Md. Shamsul Azam,
Zonal Settlement Officer (Deputy
Secretary), Dinajpur, Prof Mohammad
Mokbul Hossain, Principal (Rtd), Govt
JKAG College, Lalmonirhat, Jiban
Abu Taher has been elected as president while Md Mujibul Islam has been
elected as general secretary of Cox's Bazar Press Club on Tuesday. Photo: TBT
Abu Taher elected president,
Mujibul gen secy of Cox's
Bazar Press Club
SHAFIUL ALAM, COx'S BAZAR CORRESPONDENT:
The new committee of Cox's Bazar Press
Club has been announced. Abu Taher was
elected as president while Md Mujibul Islam
has been elected as general secretary.
The committee was announced by the
Election Commissioner at 8 pm on Tuesday.
Engineer Badiul Alam, Advocate Taposh
Rakshit and Jasmine Akhtar were the
election commissioners of Cox's Bazar Press
Club this year. Election Commissioner
Engineer Badiul Alam said that according to
the election schedule, Monday, January 11
was the last day to withdraw nomination
papers. 15 candidates submitted nomination
Krishna Barman, Lecturer,
Department of English, Dinajpur Govt.
College, Dinajpur were among others
present at the occasion while Engr. Md.
Aynul Haque, Principal, Dinajpur
Technical Training Centre, Dinajpur
chaired the occasion.
The program was moderated by
Nimai Kumar Dutta, Chief Instructor,
Computer Department, Dinajpur
Technical Training Center. At the
beginning of the inauguration, TTC's
Japanese language instructor Abdullah
Al Kafi Hassan addressed the guests
and trainees in Japanese and another
trainee translated it into Bengali.
papers for 15 posts. The nomination papers
of all the candidates have been validated
after verification and selection. As a result, all
of them have been declared victorious
without contest.
The other elected candidates are Mumtaz
Uddin Bahari, vice-president, Abdul Quddus
Rana, co-general secretary, Ayashur
Rahman, finance secretary, Hasanur Rashid,
literary and cultural secretary, Deepak
Sharma Dipu, sports secretary and Ikram
Chowdhury Tipu, library and auditorium
secretary. The members are, Badiul Alam,
Tofail Ahmed, Mahbubur Rahman,
Mohammad Hossain, Md. Nurul Islam
Helali, GM Ashek Ullah, Faridul Alam.
120 homeless people to get brick-built
houses in Gobindaganj
GAIBANDHA: As many
as 120 homeless people of
Gobindaganj upazila in the
district are going to get
brick built houses having
shed with corrugated iron
sheets at the directive of
Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina, reports BSS.
The homeless people will
be given the houses on
Mujib Year, the birth
centenary of Father of the
Nation Bangabandhu
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Upazila administration
accomplished the
construction work of the
houses under Ashrayan
Project-2 of the Prime
Minister's Office (PMO) at
the cost of TK 20.52 crore.
Upazila Nirbahi Officer
(UNO) Ramkrishna
Barman said around cent
percent work had been
completed and the houses
are kept ready to handover
to the selected
beneficiaries.
Asked when the houses
would be handed over to
the beneficiaries, the UNO
said, "The honorable prime
minister will inaugurate the
distribution of houses
across the country virtually
from Ganabhaban, Dhaka
as early as possible."
Then the upazila
administration along with
local public representatives
would hand over the
houses to the beneficiaries
formally, he added.
A total of 846 houses are
being built for the homeless
people in the district
marking the Mujib Year,
said deputy commissioner
(DC) Abdul Matin.
A charger van was given to the poor and helpless family of visually impaired as a gift from the Prime
Minister on the occasion of Mujib Year in Raninagar on Monday.
Photo: S M Saiful Islam
Nagorik Moncho holds press
conference in Pabna
ABDUL HAMID KHAN, PAB-
NA CORRESPONDENT:
Nagorik Moncho held a
press conference at Pabna
Press Club auditorium on
Wednesday. At the
occasion the speakers said
that for a long time in
Pabna, a kind of demon
has fallen on various social,
political and cultural
organizations. People are
not able to express their
independent views in the
political and social spheres.
Infertility is going on in the
field of art, culture and
sports. All the companies
are occupied by land
robbers, mafia dons and
drug dealers. Democracy,
politics, culture have been
raped by a few people in
the Pabna municipality
election with the
intervention of a black
hand.
They said in an outraged
voice - Pabna Mafia Don
Anjan Chowdhury Pintu
has taken over District
Sports Association,
Annada Govinda Public
Library, Banamali
Institute, Town Hall, 16
bighas of land in the
municipality's
slaughterhouse, Abhiit
Bandhan Community
Center in the heart of the
city, Pabna Motor Owners
Group, 21st Book Fair
Celebration Council,
Suchitra Sen Movies
Festival and dish line
business. Besides,
confiscation of government
abandoned property,
setting up a liquor store
with sex goddesses of
Estrus, assassination of
Nanda Gopal Roy, a
prominent businessman of
Pabna, and seizure of all
ownership of the square,
established its dominance
by evading taxes and
occupying the Chamber of
Commerce. They
demanded that these
institutions be left to the
socio-cultural leadership
without delay.
The speakers said angrily
that it was Pintu
Chowdhury who started
the drug business by
importing heroin for the
first time in Pabna and
Bangladesh. The evils of
which have pushed the
youth of Bangladesh on the
path of destruction. Due to
his good relations with the
political elite, he exerted
various influences in the
Pabna elections. As a part
of it, in the upcoming
Pabna municipality
election, a person from an
anti-independence family
was nominated by the
Awami League in the
Pabna municipality
election.
Idris Ali Biswas,
prominent businessman
and convener of Nagorik
Moncho Pabna, said that
one person's misrule is
going on in Pabna. Today's
press conference of
Nagorik Moncho is
basically in his protest.
Nagorik Moncho Pabna
Member Secretary
Comrade Zakir Hossain
moderated the occasion
while Convener Idris Ali
Biswas chaired the
occasion. Among others,
Former MP Maqbool
Hossain Santu, District
Awami League Vice
President Abul Kalam
Azad Babu, Sector
Commanders Forum -
Muktijuddha'71 Pabna
District Branch President
Abdur Rahim Pakon,
Ganatantri Party General
Secretary Sultan Ahmed
and Jatiya Party leader
Nasir Chowdhury were
among others present at
the occasion.
Idris Ali Biswas, prominent businessman and convener of Nagorik Moncho Pabna addressed a press
conference at Pabna Press Club auditorium on Wednesday.
Photo: Abdul Hamid Khan