26-11-2021

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Training workshop of Atrail beel Water
Management Cooperative Society held
MUBARAK HOSSAIN, SINGAIR CORReSPONDeNT
A training workshop for members of
Atrail Beel Water Management
Cooperative Society has been held at
Singair upazila of Manikganj. The daylong
training workshop was held at
Golaidanga High School in the upazila
on Wednesday (November 24) at the
initiative of local Government
engineering Department (lGeD)
under the Small Water Resources
Development Project (Phase II).
Around 250 members of the
association took part in it. Manikganj
local Government engineering
Department (lGeD) executive
engineer Md. faizul Haque spoke as
the chief guest at the occassion
organized by the Department of local
Government and funded by the Japan
International Cooperation Agency
(JICA).
During the time, Upazila engineer
Muhammad Rubaiyat Zaman,
Baldhara UP Chairman Abdul Majed
Khan, Upazila livestock Officer Dr.
faruk Ahmed, Senior fisheries Officer
Wahidul Abrar, Agriculture Officer
Tipu Sultan Sapan, Cooperative Officer
Akhinur Yasmin, Women's Affairs
Officer Raushan Ara and Sub-Inspector
Syeda Nasima Akter were also present
at the occassion.
A training workshop for members of Atrail Beel Water Management
Cooperative Society has been held at Singair upazila of Manikganj
recently.
Photo: Mubarak Hossain
20 modern equipments have been distributed among the farmers for cutting
and threshing paddy in Morrelganj on Thursday. Photo: M Palash Sharif
One die of Covid-19, casualties
reach 1,245 in Rangpur
RANGPUR: One more Covid-19 patient died
during the last 24 hours ending at 8 am
yesterday raising the number of coronavirus
related casualties to 1,245 in Rangpur division,
reports BSS.
"The new Covid-19 death was reported from
Dinajpur in the division that witnessed no
fatalities during the last seven days since
November 17," said Acting Divisional Director
(Health) Dr Abu Md Zakirul Islam.
The district-wise breakup of the 1,245
fatalities currently stands at 293 in Rangpur, 81
in Panchagarh, 89 in Nilphamari, 68 in
lalmonirhat, 69 in Kurigram, 254 in
Thakurgaon, 328 in Dinajpur and 63 in
Gaibandha districts of the division.
The average casualty rate currently stands at
2.24 percent in the division.
Meanwhile, the number of Covid-19 cases
reached 55,533 as five new patients were
diagnosed after testing 205 samples at the
positivity rate of 2.44 percent on Wednesday in
the division.
The daily positivity rate has been remaining
mostly below the five percent mark during the
last two months in the division.
"The district-wise break up of total 55,533
patients include 12,506 of Rangpur, 3,822
Panchagarh, 4,458 of Nilphamari, 2,745 of
lalmonirhat, 4,646 of Kurigram, 7,661 of
Thakurgaon, 14,827 of Dinajpur and 4,868 of
Gaibandha in the division," he said.
Dr Islam said a total of 2,99,195 collected
samples were tested till Wednesday, and of
them, 55,533 were found Covid-19 positive
RAJSHAHI: Rajshahi
Medical College Hospital
(RMCH) recorded one more
fatality in its Covid-19 unit
during the last 24 hours till
6am yesterday, reports BSS.
The death toll due to
Covid-19 and its symptoms
reached 32 so far this month
with the new death, RMCH
Director Brigadier General
Shamim Yazdani said.
The new deceased was a
female, hailed from Natore
RMCH records
one more fatality
in Covid-19 unit
and she was suffering from
symptoms of Covid-19.
Meanwhile, four more
patients were admitted to
the Covid-19 unit during the
last 24 hours, taking the
number of admitted patients
with an average positivity rate of 18.56 percent
in the division.
In the meantime, the total number of healed
Covid-19 patients reached 53,366 with
recovery of seven more infected patients on
Wednesday in the division where the average
recovery rate currently stands at 96.10 percent.
The 53,366 recovered patients include 11,590
of Rangpur, 3,683 Panchagarh, 4,362
Nilphamari, 2,625 lalmonirhat, 4,527
Kurigram, 7,350 Thakurgaon, 14,434 in
Dinajpur and 4,795 Gaibandha districts in the
division.
Among the 55,533 patients, 35 are
undergoing treatments at isolation units,
including nine critical patients at ICU beds and
six at High Dependency Unit beds, after
recovery of 53,366 patients and 1,245 deaths
while 887 are remaining now in home
isolation.
"Meanwhile, the number of citizens who got
the first dose of the Covid- 19 vaccine rose to
65,62,710, and among them, 36,76,118 got the
second dose of the jab till Wednesday in the
division," Dr Islam said.
Chief of Divisional Coronavirus Service and
Prevention Task force and Principal of
Rangpur Medical College Professor Dr AKM
Nurunnobi lyzu said the Covid-19 situation
continues to improve during the last three
months in Rangpur division.
"To prevent another probable wave of the
lethal virus in the winter, everyone should
properly abide by the health directives of the
government," he said.
to 35, including seven
positive for Covid-19, at
present.
Two other patients
returned home after being
cured during the same time.
On the other hand, one
more patient tested positive
for Covid-19 after testing
240 samples in Rajshahi's
two laboratories on
Wednesday, showing a 0.46
percent positivity rate.
The training workshop discussed
important issues aimed at making the
members of Atrail Beel Water
Management Cooperative Society
(PABSOS) self-reliant and self-reliant
by expanding fisheries, agriculture and
animal resources.
Upazila Assistant engineer Nazrul
Islam, Abdul Malek, President and
General Secretary of Atrail Beel Water
Management Cooperative Society
along with officials and employees of
various levels of Small Water
Resources Development Project and
local Government engineering
Department (lGeD) were present.
20 machines,
fertilizer seeds
distrubted
among farmers
in Morrelganj
M PAlASH SHARIf, MORRel-
GANJ CORReSPONDeNT
In Morrelganj of
Bagerhat, 20 modern
equipments have been
distributed among the
farmers for cutting and
threshing paddy. Under
the farm mechanization
project, the upazila
agriculture department
distributed 10 paddy
harvesters and 10
threshing machines at
subsidized prices on
Thursday around 12
noon.
Upazila Chairman Adv.
Shah-i-Alash Bachchu,
Upazila Nirbahi Officer
Md Jahangir Alam and
Agriculture Officer Sifat
Al Maruf officially handed
over the machines. In
addition, 5 and a half
metric tons of high
yielding varieties of rice
seeds and 16 metric tons
of fertilizer were
distributed among the
farmers free of cost.
Upazila Vice Chairman
Mozammel Haque,
fahima Chabul District
Council Member
Professor Afroza Akter
lina were present on the
occasion.
GP's One Stop
Service Center
inagurated at
Nandail
ARABINDA PAUl, NANDAIl
CORReSPONDeNT
Grameen Phone's One
Stop Center has been
inaugurated by senior
officials of Grameen
Phone Company in
Nandai.
The service center was
inaugurated on Thursday
by cutting the ribbon on
the ground floor of labu
Plaza in the old bus stand
area of Nandail Upazila
Sadar. Invited guests
later cut a cake.
The guests present at
the inaugural function
said that Grameen Phone
Company is the oldest
and largest phone service
in Bangladesh. The
center has been
inaugurated at the upazila
level to expand this
service.
During the time, Akram
Hossain, secretary of
Nandail Bazar Business
Association, Hasan
Mahmud, Assistant
Manager Dipankar Das,
Retail Channel Manager
Muhammad Noor e
Khoda, Mymensingh
Retail Channel Manager
Mahmud Ur Rahman,
Territory Manager Syed
Ahmed Chowdhury,
NRBC Bank Manager Asif
Sarwar, NCC Bank
Manager Mahbub were
among others present at
the occassion.
An open discussion was held with the stockholders with the aim of getting the suggestions, complaints
and opinions of the beneficiaries regarding the activities of Sreemangal NGO's in
Moulvibazar on Thursday.
Photo: Sayed Ahmed
Open discussion regarding activities
of Sreemangal NGO’S held
SAYeD AHMeD, SReeMANGAl CORReSPONDeNT
An open discussion was held with the
stockholders with the aim of getting the
suggestions, complaints and opinions of the
beneficiaries regarding the activities of
Sreemangal NGO's in Moulvibazar. The
meeting was held on Thursday morning at
the Zila Parishad Auditorium Hall of the city
at the initiative of MCDA and educo
Bangladesh. Q
The program was attended by educo
Bangladesh Director (Program) farzana
Rangpur region to produce
11,688 tonnes of groundnut
RANGPUR: A target of
producing 11,688 tonnes of
groundnut from 6,015
hectares of land has been
fixed for all five districts in
Rangpur agriculture region
during the current (2021-
2022) Rabi season, reports
BSS.
Officials of the Department
of Agricultural extension
(DAe) said farmers produced
a record 13,191 tonnes of
groundnut from 6,027
hectares of land exceeding the
fixed production target of
12,161 tonnes during the last
Rabi season. "farmers have
already completed sowing of
groundnut seeds on 4,195
hectares of land as the process
continues amid excellent
climatic conditions,"
Additional Director of the
DAe's Rangpur region
Agriculturist Md. Tauhidul
Ikbal told BSS yesterday.
Tender groundnut plants
are growing fabulously now
both on the mainland and vast
riverine char areas in all five
districts of Rangpur
agriculture region.
farmers are expanding
groundnut farming every year
after getting repeated bumper
production and lucrative
market price in the last 13
consecutive years, even
during the Covid-19 pandemic
period.
As a result of conducting
massive motivational
activities by the DAe and
other agriculture related
organisations, farmers are
cultivating high yielding
varieties of groundnut evolved
by Bangladesh Agriculture
Research Institute (BARI).
farmers are showing keen
interests in enhancing
groundnut cultivation on
main lands and char areas to
reap more profits than many
other crops following the
constantly increasing demand
of the crop. Senior
Coordinator (Agriculture and
environment) of RDRS
Bangladesh Agriculturist
Mamunur Rashid said
farmers can earn Taka 40,000
by producing 26 to 30
mounds of groundnut per
acre of land, spending around
Taka 20,000 as farming costs
per acre.
farmers are getting
excellent groundnut yield by
cultivating its high yielding
varieties evolved by BARI in
all five districts of Rangpur,
Gaibandha, lalmonirhat,
Kurigram and Nilphamari in
the region.
High yielding varieties of
groundnut like 'Maizchar',
'Tridana', 'Basonti', BARI-8,
BARI-6, BINA-4 and BINA-8
are mostly being cultivated by
farmers after getting repeated
bumper output and lucrative
price in recent years.
Khan, educo Bangladesh Managerevaluation
and Knowledge Management Md
Jamal Uddin, Sreemangal Upazila Youth
Development Officer Asim Kumar Kar,
Monitoring & evaluation Officer Kamal
Kashna Roy were among others also present
at the occassion.
The event was attended by educo
Bangladesh's 4 local organizations Breaking
the Silence, MCDA, Idea and Prochestha's
Aloy Alo project beneficiaries from different
classes and 60 representatives from
stockholders.
With increasing demand for
groundnut in the country's
boosting food industry sector,
enthusiastic farmers are
expanding groundnut
cultivation every year.
"Some 7,000 farmers,
mostly living in riverine char
areas, have achieved selfreliance
by cultivating
groundnut twice annually on
sandy char lands with
assistance of the DAe and
different NGOs improving
their living standard," Rashid
added.
Talking to BSS, farmer
Abdur Rahman of village Char
Ghoneshyam village in
Jatrapur union of Kurigram
said he has cultivated
groundnut on one acre of char
land spending Taka 20,000
this year to recoup the crop
losses caused by recent floods.
farmers Abdul Hakim and
Bachchu Mian of Char
Nawani Para in the same area
said they have cultivated
groundnut on more char land
this season after getting
bumper production and
excellent prices every year in
recent times. Similarly,
farmers Abul Hashem,
lokman Hossain and Abdul
Haque of Char Biswanath
village in Kawnia upazila of
Rangpur said they have
cultivated groundnut on more
char lands this year than the
previous seasons.
95,687 patients
so far recover
from Covid-19
in Rajshahi
RAJSHAHI: Ten more
persons have recovered
from Covid- 19 in the
division on Wednesday,
taking the recovery count to
95,687 since the pandemic
began in March last year,
reports BSS.
Sixteen more people have
tested positive for the deadly
disease in six districts of the
division during the same
period, raising the caseload
to 99,295 so far.
The new positive cases
show a falling trend
compared to the previous
day's figure, said Dr Habibul
Ahsan Talukder, divisional
director of Health, adding
that a total of 24 people were
infected on Tuesday.
The death toll remained
steady at 1,680, including
685 in Bogura, 323 in
Rajshahi with 204 in its city
and 175 in Natore as no new
fatality was reported during
the last 24 hours span, Dr
Talukder added.
Besides, all the positive
cases of Covid-19 have, so
far, been brought under
treatment while 23,080
were kept in isolation units
of different dedicated
hospitals for institutional
quarantine. Of them, 19,723
have been released.
Meanwhile, 25 more
people have been sent to
home and institutional
quarantine afresh, while 26
others were released from
isolation during the same
time.
Of the 16 new cases, six
were detected in Joypurhat,
followed by three each in
Bogura and Pabna, two in
Naogaon and one each in
Rajshahi and Natore
districts.
With the newly detected
patients, the district-wise
break-up of the total cases
now stands at 28,204 in
Rajshahi including 22,761 in
its city, 5,687 in
Chapainawabganj, 6,441 in
Naogaon, 8,407 in Natore,
4,675 in Joypurhat, 21,700
in Bogura, 11,416 in
Sirajganj and 12,765 in
Pabna.
Grameen Phone's One Stop Center has been inaugurated by senior officials of Grameen Phone
Company in Nandail on Thursday.
Photo: Arabinda Paul