27-12-2020

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2020
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The election of the traditional Barishal Press Club was with great enthusiasm recently.
Mustard flowers have spread in different fields in Chatmohar.
RafiqUl islaM Rony, Chat-
MohaR CoRResPondent:
Mustard flowers have
spread in different fields in
Chatmohar. the farmers
are dreaming of a new life.
farmers are working day
and night. it can be seen on
the ground that this year,
the fields of handiyal,
nimaichara, Chaikola and
Bilchalan of Chatmohar
have been covered with
yellow flowers of mustard.
Compared to other years,
farmers are dreaming of
good yield this year as there
is no insect attack in
mustard cultivation.
in comparison, mustard
cultivation has been much
better this year. Moreover,
due to timely application of
fertilizers and pesticides,
the farmers have not been
able to get any speed to
cultivate mustard.
Chatmohar Upazila
agriculture officer aa
Masum Billah said the
water level in the upazila
was delayed due to several
floods. Besides, many
Photo: Zihad Rana
negaban Montu president, Kazi Miraj
Gs of Barishal press club
Zihad Rana, BaRishal CoRResPondent:
the election of the traditional
Barishal Press Club has been
completed with great enthusiasm. the
voting continued from 5 pm to 8 pm. in
the election, adv Md ismail hossain
negaban defeated Kazi nasir Uddin
Babul, for the post of President, by 9
votes and got 40 votes. Kazi Miraj
Mahmud was elected as the General
secretary after defeating Kazi al
Mamun by 8 votes and getting 39 votes.
sM Zakir hossain and Pulak
Chatterjee have been elected as vice
presidents by defeating Mahmud
hossain Chowdhury and Gopal sarkar.
sM Zakir hossain got 45 votes, Pulak
Chatterjee 36 votes, Mahmud hossain
Chowdhury 35 votes and Gopal sarkar
26 votes.
M Mofazzal was elected as the Joint
General secretary with 39 votes. his
nearest rival Zakir hossain got 33
votes. Mosharraf hossain was elected
as treasurer with 39 votes. his nearest
rival Zia shaheen got 32 votes. Rubel
Khan was elected as library secretary
with 42 votes. his closest rival M. Miraj
hossain got 29 votes. sukhendu edbar
was elected as the literary and Cultural
secretary with 38 votes. his nearest
rival azad alauddin got 31 votes.
dewan Mohan was elected as the
sports secretary with 36 votes. his
closest rival Md arefin tushar got 34
votes. nasir Uddin was elected as office
secretary with 40 votes. his closest
rival M. lokman hossain got 31 votes.
adv nazrul islam Chunnu has been
elected as the executive member with a
maximum of 51 votes. after that
Mizanur Rahman got 48 votes, KM
nayan and nurul alam farid got 45
votes, sagar Vaidya got 35 votes,
Manabendra Botbal and syed dulal got
34 votes.
Chief election Commissioner MM
amjad hossain said that the journalists
of Barishal have elected the leadership
of the press club for the next one year
by casting their votes in a fair and
beautiful environment from 5 pm to 8
pm. he also said that the voting was fair
and beautiful like in the past.
Photo: Rafiqul Islam Rony
farmers` dreaming big amid
good yield of mustard
people could not plant
mustard seeds due to
waterlogging in the field.
6,200 hectares.
from the agriculture
office, 1,800 farmers of
has made the farmers
aware about the method
of mustard cultivation and
so this year mustard the upazila have been what to do in case of insect
cultivation has been less. given 1 kg of mustard attack. Moreover, the
so far mustard has been seeds and 20 kg of officials have been
planted in 5,900 hectares
of land in the upazila, the
target was set this year,
fertilizer. farmers have
been made aware of
mustard cultivation. he
providing all kinds of
assistance to the farmers
from the field all the time.
Chatkhil Press Club gets new committee
Rafiq Ullah KhoKon, ChatKhil CoRResPondent:
the bi-annual general meeting of Chatkhil
Press Club was held at the Press Club building
on friday morning. Press Club President Md
shoaib hossain Bulu chaired the occasion
while general secretary of the press club
Habibur Rahman was elected as
president and Shoaib Hossain Bulu
as general secretary of the new
managing committee of Chatkhil
Press Club recently. Photo: TBT
habibur Rahman presented the annual report
of the club. the members expressed
satisfaction over the development activities.
at the occasion, an 11-member managing
committee was formed with habibur Rahman
(daily sangbad) as president and shoaib
hossain Bulu (daily ittefaq) as general
secretary. other officials of the committee are
vice-presidentMd Rafiq Ullah Khokon (the
Bangladesh today), Co-General secretary
Gulzar hossain saikat (daily naya diganta),
finance editor Jasim Mahmud (daily our
new time), office secretary asheke elahi
(daily sangram).
the members are syed Mushfiqur Rahman
(daily lakhokantha), abdul quader siddiqui
Milon (daily Krishan), Muktar hossain Mukta
(daily Bhorer dak), anwarul haider (daily
samakal) and Mamun hossain (daily
Manabjamin).
fertilizing land after
soil test stressed to
boost production
RaJshahi: speakers at a
function urged the farmers to
fertilize their cultivable land
after necessary soil test to
protect its health and increase
production, reports Bss.
they viewed that soil
nutrients have gradually been
declining due to
disproportionate use of
fertilizer, creating a negative
impact on the soil productivity.
the farmers should maintain
soil health intact to boost
production to ensure food
security, they said.
they came up with the
observation while distributing
fertilizer recommendation
cards among farmers at the
function held in
Chapainawabganj on friday
afternoon.
the soil Resource
development institute (sRdi)
under its 'farmers service
Programme' hosted the card
distribution ceremony at the
conference hall of Regional
horticulture Research Centre
(RhRC). on the occasion,
around 70 farmers were given
the cards besides disseminating
ideas on how to avail facilities of
mobile soil test laboratory to
detect soil productivity and
degradation and fertilizer using
guidelines online.
RafiqUl islaM, shiBChaR
CoRResPondent:
Voluntary organization
'asroy' has distributed
winter clothes among one
hundred orphans and
children of extremely poor
families in different
orphanages of shibchar
upazila. the distribution of
winter clothes was
organized at the office of the
organization at Utrail
nayabazar in the upazila on
saturday.
according to the
organization, the
organization distributed 100
blankets among the children
of Madrasa plus orphanage
in different areas of the
upazila. the distribution of
winter clothes was
organized at the office of the
organization at around 10 in
the morning. at that time,
one blanket, biscuit and
travel expenses were
provided to each of the
children of the orphan and
extremely poor families
studying in the orphanage of
Remote Rangabali upazila
gets rural electricity
the hard to reach areas of
Rangabali under Patuakhali
district, lone off grid upazila in
the country, have finally been
brought under electricity
coverage, a press release said.
in a statement, Bangladesh
Rural electrification Board
(BReB) the state-run
organisation informed on
Wednesday about the
milestone achievement.
a total of 1059 villages in
the country including
Rangabali upazila are
considered as 'off grid' areas
representing the remote
territories from the mainland
and remained surrounding
with water and most of the
time.
the areas are surrounded
by rivers and the Bay of
Bengal.
BReB Chairman major
general (Retd) Moin Uddin
mentioned the electrification
of Rangabali upazila has set a
benchmark in electricity
supply to the remote area as
part of government vision of
cent percent coverage.
"BReB has completed cent
percent electricity coverage to
288 upazilas and 1059
villages will be connected
within MujibBorsho which is
expected to benefit around
250 thousand remotely living
people," he added. the staterun
organization is running
the project in three phases to
reach these 1059 off grid
areas. in first phase, some
646 villages have been
connected with 35 stations of
sub marine cable going
through 2 kilometer riverine
areas.
in the second phase, 90
thousand customers of 384
remotely located villages will
be connected. some 50
stations will be established
supported by submarine
cable under the project.
some 29 hard-to reach
villages will be covered with
electricity with solar-powered
station in the third phase of
the project within the timeline
of Mujibyear. in most of the
cases, natural calamities bar
uninterrupted power supply.
if the natural situation
remains normal, all villages
will be covered within
MujibBorsho.
according to latest data,
around 30.05 million
connections of BReB serves
180 thousand micro
industries, 13.5 thousand
medium enterprises and 375
big industries, 8 ePZs and
360 thousand irrigation
pumps alongside residential
customers.
BReB has been running
operations with 530 thousand
kilometer transmission lines
connected through 1070 substations.
to ensure uninterrupted
power supply, the
organization has introduced
different initiatives of alor
feriwala, Uthan Baithak
(yard Meeting), durjog e alor
Guerilla. Under the alor
feriwala programme, BReB
ensured 'connection' in short
time through 'spot metering'
system.
Winter clothes distributed among
orphans in shibchar
homeless people getting houses at
govt’s initiative: narsingdi dC
taRaK Pathan, Palash
CoRResPondent:
syeda farhana Kawnine,
deputy Commissioner
and district Magistrate of
narsingdi said that 'on the
occasion of Mujib Borsho,
the landless and homeless
are getting their dream
address with the great
initiative of the
government. each
homeless family is being
given a new home. not
only that, the government
is working tirelessly day
and night to improve the
living standards of the
marginalized people of the
country. People of all
classes and professions of
the country are getting the
benefits'.
she made the remarks
while addressing a
discussion meeting as the
chief guest after inspecting
construction work for 25
landless and homeless
families in Majherchar
village of Jinardi union in
Palash upazila on
saturday morning. she
further added that, 'in
order to stand tall as a
modern developing
Voluntary organization 'Asroy' has distributed winter clothes among one
hundred orphans and children of extremely poor families in different
orphanages of Shibchar upazila.
Photo: Rafiqul Islam
the madrasa.
the teachers of the
madrasa who came with the
children said, 'the blankets
country, first of all we have
to improve the living
standards of the
marginalized people of the
country. With that in
mind, Prime Minister
sheikh hasina started the
work of developing
BREB Chairman major
general (Retd) Moin Uddin
given to the children as
grants are very much in line
with the standards. Winter
is preventable. in fact, i
infrastructure in remote
rural areas of the country'.
Upazila nirbahi officer
Rumana yasmin presided
over the discussion while
among others, Upazila
Chairman syed Jabed
hossain, Jinardi Union
don't see anyone giving such
quality blankets. the
children will be able to study
while sleeping.
Parishad Chairman Prof
Kamrul islam Gazi,
Upazila assistant
Commissioner (land)
aminul islam and Upazila
female Vice Chairman
selina akhter were also
present at the occasion.
Syeda Farhana Kawnine, Deputy Commissioner and District
Magistrate of Narsingdi addressed a discussion meeting as the chief
guest after inspecting construction work for 25 landless and homeless
families in Majherchar village of Jinardi union in Palash upazila on
Saturday.
Photo: Tarak Pathan