28-04-2021

WeDNeSDAY, APRIl 28, 2021
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Narail Superintendent of Police Prabir Kumar Roy PPM as the chief guest addressed a view
exchange meeting in Narail on Tuesday.
Photo: Humaun Kabir
View exchange meeting
to control crime held
in narail
huMaun kaBIR, naRaIl CoRRespondent
a view exchange meeting was held in narail
to control crime. narail superintendent of
police prabir kumar Roy ppM addressed the
meeting as the chief guest organized by the
district police at police lines on tuesday.
during the time, additional
superintendent of police tanzila siddique,
additional superintendent of police Riaz,
district awami league president advocate
subash Chandra Bose, General secretary
nizam uddin khan nilu, narail-2 Mp
Mashrafe Bin Mortaza's father Golam
Mortaza swapan, sadar upazila awami
league president advocate achin kumar
Chakraborty, narail Municipality Mayor
anjuman ara, kalia Municipality Mayor
ahiduzzaman Rahman hirapi, Bir
Chairman ujjwal sheikh, lahuria up
Chairman dawood hossain and Mulia up
Chairman Rabindranath adhikari were also
present at the occasion.
Relief materials were distributed among the poor and helpless in Pirganj
on Tuesday.
Photo: Bishnu Roy
Relief given by the Prime Minister has been distributed among the poor and
helpless families of the municipal area at the initiative of Joypurhat
Municipality and District Administration on Monday. Photo: Masrakul Alom
MasRakul aloM, JoypuRhat
CoRRespondent
Relief given by the prime
Minister has been
distributed among the poor
and helpless families of the
municipal area at the
initiative of Joypurhat
Municipality and district
administration.
deputy Commissioner
shariful Islam distributed
relief as the chief guest at the
Relief distributed
among helpless
families in Joypurhat
Circuit house ground on
Monday afternoon.
Joypurhat Municipal Mayor
Mostafizur Rahman Mostaq
presided over the meeting
while among others, district
Council Chairman and
district awami league
president arifur Rahman
Rocket, additional deputy
Commissioner
Moniruzaman, district
awami league General
secretary Zakir hossain,
sadar upazila parishad
Chairman sM solaiman ali,
upazila nirbahi officer
arafat hossain and others.
on the occasion, 500
families were given 10 kg of
rice and 3 kg of potatoes.
Relief materials
distributed
among poor
people in pirganj
BIshnu Roy, pIRGanJ CoRRespondent
Relief materials including
vermicelli, sugar and milk
have been distributed
among the poor and helpless
in pirganj of thakurgaon.
on the occasion of eid-ul-
Fitr under the banner of
Banuapara Manab kalyan
sangha, a joint arrangement
of local army members and
BGB members, the
programme was held at east
Mallikpur primary
Government school
premises on tuesday
afternoon.
during the time, upazila
Chairman akhtarul Islam,
upazila nirbahi officer
Rezaul karim, daulatpur up
Chairman kartik Chandra
Roy, Banuapara Manab
kalyan sangha president
and army Member khazir
uddin hasan, BGB Member
Belal hossain, BGB Member
Mizanur Rahman, army
Member Raju parvez, and
army Member Mofassel
hossain were among others
present at the occasion.
Foundation stone
of Muktijoddha
Memorial Museum
laid in panchagarh
panChaGaRh: the
foundation stone of
Muktijoddha Memorial
Museum has been laid at the
debiganj-domar highway in
front of upazila secondary
education office in
debiganj upazila of the
district yesterday, reports
Bss.
upazila Chairman of
debiganj abdul Malek
Chistee formally laid the
foundation stone for
construction of the
Muktijoddha Memorial
Museum as the chief guest.
the museum would be
built aiming for preserving
the historical documents of
the district during the
liberation War in 1971.
the local Government
engineering department
(lGed) would implement
the construction work at a
cost of taka 65. 57 lakh.
upazila nirbahi officer
(uno) prottoy hasan,
upazila engineer (lGed)
Md, Mominul Islam,
upazila awami league
president Gias uddin
Chowdary and freedom
fighter Commander sodesh
Chandra were present,
among others, on the
occasion.
Museum to preserve the memory of poet
shankha Ghosh demanded in Banaripara
s MIZanul IslaM, BanaRIpaRa CoRRespondent
the late padma Bhushan recipient
shankha Ghosh is from India. the
ancestral home of renowned poet
shankha Ghosh is at Ghosh house of
Banaripara Municipal Council in
Barishal district. the traditional river
in literature and culture is the pramtta
sandhya river which flows through
Bidhaut Banaripara upazila. the
ancestral home of poet shankha Ghosh
was in the heart of Banaripara
municipal town on the banks of the
sandhya. he came to Banaripara once
in the eighties and the last poet
shankha Ghosh came to his
predecessor's land in 1996.
Former commander of the upazila
Muktijoddha sangsad tarunendra
narayan Ghosh alias tarun Ghosh, a
nephew of the kabir clan, said the
poet's ancestor is on the south side of
the house of eminent ekushey Medalwinning
journalist Golam sarwar and
upazila awami league president
Golam saleh. he was born in
Chandpur. however, he spent a lot of
his childhood and adolescence in
Banaripara. the poet came to
Banaripara in 1998 and toured the
places where his childhood memories
are associated with his ancestral place.
he further said that the poet sankh
Ghosh loved sandhya river very much.
When he went to kolkata, he would
repeatedly say, 'I want to go to the river
bank again in the evening.'
In this context, the ex Mayor Ghulam
saleh Manju Mollah said, the poet
came to Banaripara in the eighties.
then he had lunch at our house.
Cultural personality Moazzem hossain
Manik said that Ghosh's house is the
ancestral home of poet shankha
Ghosh. It is a place where the
memories of his childhood and
adolescence are intertwined. It needs
to be preserved as a place of interest.
about the poet, s Mizanul Islam, a
senior journalist and cultural activist
from Banaripara, said that the poet
shankha Ghosh was born in
Banaripara, which is rich in the history
and heritage of Bangladesh. he
demanded that the ancestral home of
this Bengali poet be established as a
museum through the archeology
department.
poet shankha Ghosh visited
Banaripara in 1996 and wrote his
memoir - 'evening in the river water:
Bangladesh'. the first publication was
published in 2019 in the form of a book
by the poet. In the book, the poet
writes, after 50 years, I am living in my
own village. the car is moving along
the paved road on the way to
Banaripara. When we were little, the
only means of transportation was by
boat. he further writes, 'the water of
the river is glistening in the morning
sun. the steamer wharf is no more.
there are only row boats. the sailors
want to know me, do I want to go to the
other side? our village is touched by
the river in the sandhya. the poet
could not come to Banaripara as a
guest of honor at the amar ekushey
Book Fair of Bangla academy in 2019
due to physical illness. he passed away
at the Battle of Corona in kolkata on
Wednesday 21 april '21. a mourning
meeting will be held in Banaripara
after eid. Government patronage is
needed to preserve the memory of poet
shankha Ghosh.
The ancestral home of late poet Shankha Ghosh is situated in Banaripara upazila.
Photo: S Mizanul Islam
Farmers to produce 6,89,367 bales
of jute in Rangpur region
RanGpuR: the department of
agricultural extension (dae) has fixed
a target for farmers to produce six lakh
89 thousand and 367 bales of jute in
Rangpur agriculture region this season,
reports Bss.
the dae officials said a target of
producing 6,89,367 bales of jute fibre
has been fixed from 58,520 hectares of
land for all five districts in the region
this season.
under the programme, farmers will
produce 6,45,936 bales of 'tosha'
variety jute fibre from 54,100 hectares
of land, 34,928 bales of 'deshi' variety
fibre from 3,560 hectares, 2,628 bales
of 'Mechta' variety of jute from 360
hectares and 5,875 bales of kenaf
variety of jute from 500 hectares of
land this season.
Farmers will cultivate jute on 9,830
hectares of land in Rangpur, 16,090
hectares in Gaibandha, 19,660 hectares
in kurigram, 4,640 hectares in
lalmonirhat and 8,300 hectares of
land in nilphamari districts of the
region.
"Farmers have already brought
41,415 hectares of land, 78.51 percent
against the fixed farming target, under
jute cultivation till Monday in the
region," said agriculturist khandker
abdul Wahed, additional director of
the dae for Rangpur region.
the tender jute plants are growing
superbly amid favourable climatic
conditions as sowing jute seeds is
nearing completion in the region where
harvest of the crop will begin from July
next.
"Getting lucrative prices between
taka 4,000 and taka 5,000 per mound
of jute last season, farmers are expected
to exceed the fixed farming target after
getting high yielding varieties of jute
seeds and other assistance from the
government," he said.
the government has declared jute as
national agricultural product and made
use of jute sacs mandatory in various
sectors to increase local demand and
ensure fair prices by enhancing its
cultivation despite cultivation of aush
rice and maize on more land area.
the dae and other government and
non-government organisations and
dealers supplied locally produced high
quality and imported jute seeds to
farmers and are providing latest
technologies to them to expand jute
cultivation to revive past glory of the
fibre. "necessary training and inputs
have also been provided to farmers for
separating and rotting of jute fibre
adopting latest technologies to ensure
better quality to enable them in getting
higher price of their produced jute,"
Wahed said.
senior Coordinator (agriculture and
environment) of RdRs Bangladesh
agriculturist Mamunur Rashid said
tender jute plants are growing superbly
amid favourable climatic conditions
predicting an abundant production of
the fibre crop this season.
Bhola: six mobile courts of the
district administration fined 36
people taka 18,300 in different
upazilas, including the district
headquarters, for breaching Covid-19
safety rules and violating the
conditions of the ongoing lockdown
to prevent coronavirus infection,
reports Bss.
according to the district
administration sources, six teams
conducted the raids in five upazilas,
including the district town, and fined
36 people taka 18,300 for not
wearing masks, not maintaining
36 fined for
breaching
CoVId-19
safety rules
in Bhola
social distance, violating the rules of
the ongoing lockdown and moving
outside without any reason.
executive magistrate of the district
administration yusuf hasan and
upazila executive magistrates of five
upazilas led the operation teams from
morning to 10 pm on Monday.
the mobile courts also distributed
masks free of cost among the poor
and helpless people.
executive magistrate of the district
administration yusuf hasan told Bss
that the district administration is
conducting mobile courts to create
awareness among the people about
the spread of CoVId-19.
the mobile court will continue to
prevent anti-lockdown activities, the
executive magistrate added.
The final list of farmers was prepared through wheat procurement 2021 lottery in Bochaganj of
Dinajpur. A final list of 281 farmers from 6 unions of the upazila and Setabganj municipality has
been prepared through lottery on the occasion of wheat procurement campaign 2021 at the office of
Bochaganj Upazila Nirbahi Officer Chhanda Pal on Tuesday.
Photo: Suman Chandra