18-10-2022

tueSday, oCtober 18, 2022
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Programmes taken to celebrate
Russel's birthday in Rangpur
leaders including whip Shamshul Haque Chowdhury Mp and zilla parishad Chairman Mohammad
abdus Salam are praying after the inauguration of the 1,000-seat auditorium funded by zilla
parishad in patiya.
photo: Kawsar alam
1000 seat auditorium opens in Patiya
KawSar aloM, patIya CorreSpoNdeNt:
The newly constructed 1000-member
Zila Parishad Auditorium has been
inaugurated in Patiya Upazila. On
Sunday afternoon, Bangladesh
Parliament Secretariat Whip Shamshul
Haque Chowdhury MP and Zilla
Parishad Chairman Abdus Salam
inaugurated the auditorium built with
the funding of Zilla Parishad next to
Patiya Upazila Parishad. Later, Whip
Shamshul Haque Chowdhury MP
spoke as the chief guest in the
discussion meeting under the
chairmanship of Zilla Parishad Chief
4 establishments
fined in Dighinala
Md SoHaNur raHaMaN,
dIGHINala CorreSpoNdeNt:
The upazila administration
has fined institutions and
individuals under the
Consumer Rights Protection
Act in Dighinala Upazila of
Khagrachari.
On Monday, several
establishments in Boalkhali
New Market area of the
upazila were fined under the
Consumer Rights Protection
Act due to unsanitary
environment and expired
medicines, said Tatzim
Chakma, prosecutor of the
case and upazila sanitary
inspector. At that time,
Upazila Nirbahi Officer
(UNO) and Executive
Magistrate Muhammad
Arafatul Alam said, 'Due to
unsanitary environment and
expired medicine, a total of 3
cases were registered against
1 bakery, 1 pharmacy and 2
food hotels under Sections
51 and 53 of the Consumer
Rights Protection Act, 2009.
A fine of TK 3000 was fined
in total.
He also said, "Instructions
were given in the campaign
to provide clean service to
everyone in Dighinala
upazila, which is rich in
tourism."
Road accident
kills construction
worker
S M Nazrul ISlaM, GopalGaNj
CorreSpoNdeNt:
A construction worker
named Saiful Sheikh (25)
was killed by a bus in
Kashiani, Gopalganj. The
accident took place in
Bhatiapara flyover area of
Kashiani upazila on Monday
morning on Dhaka-Khulna
highway. The deceased
Saiful Sheikh is the son of
Motaleb Sheikh of village
Purbopara of Ward No. 3 of
Tungipara Upazila of
District.
Kashiani's Bhatiapara
Highway Police OC Abu
Naeem MD Tofajzel Haque
said that the construction
worker was doing
renovation work on the side
of the culvert in the
Bhatiapara flyover area of
Kashiani upazila next to the
highway. A high-speed
passenger bus of Narail
Express bound for Dhaka
from Narail hit him around
9 am. The worker died on
the spot. Police intercepted
the killer bus but the bus
driver escaped. He also said
that the body was recovered
and sent to Gopalganj 250-
bed general hospital morgue
for autopsy.
Nirbahi Officer Sabbir Iqbal.
Chittagong Zilla Parishad Chairman
Abdus Salam, Patiya Upazila Chairman
Motaherul Islam Chowdhury,
Municipal Mayor Ayub Babul, Upazila
Executive Officer Atiqul Mamun,
Assistant Commissioner Bhumi
Rakibul Islam, Upazila Vice Chairman
Dr Timir Baran Chowdhury, Alamgir
Khaled, Alamgir Alam, MNA Nashir,
Chairman Aminul Islam Tipu,
Councilor Gofran Rana, Sarwar Kamal
Rajiv, Ghiyas Uddin Azad, Jasim Uddin
etc. spoke as special guests.
Chief guest Whip Shamshul Haque
Chowdhury MP said, this is the first
auditorium with 1000 seats in Patia at
the upazila level. There is no
auditorium with more than 500 seats at
the upazila level. Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina gave this gift to Patiya
because she loves Patiya. The people of
Patiya will be forever grateful to the
Prime Minister for this.
Chittagong Zilla Parishad Chairman
Abdus Salam said, Patiya is an upazila
rich in history and tradition. People of
this area will benefit in many ways as
such a big auditorium is built in Patiya.
I am glad to have made this auditorium
with the funding of Zilla Parishad at a
cost of about 21 crores.
1 bakery, 1 pharmacy and 2 food hotels were fined under Sections 51 and 53 of the
Consumer rights protection act, 2009 on Monday. photo: Md Sohanur rahaman
Ruman wins chairman election
for the 2nd time
rafIqul ISlaM adHar, SHerpur CorreSpoNdeNt:
Awami League's rebel candidate Humayun
Kabir Ruman has been elected chairman for
the second time in the Sherpur Zilla Parishad
elections. District Returning
Officer and District
Commissioner Sahela Akhtar
announced the results after
the counting of votes on
Monday afternoon.
Humayun Kabir Ruman,
the winning candidate of the
Zilla Parishad election, got
549 votes with the
motorcycle icon. His nearest
rival Awami League
nominated candidate,
District Awami League General Secretary
Advocate Chandan Kumar Pal got 187 votes
in Pineapple icon. Another candidate Zakaria
Vishu got 5 votes in Sunglass icon each. In
addition, the winning candidates for the post
of general members are Mohammad Mosa
Mia in the 1st ward, Md. Mahmudul Hasan
Mukta in the 2nd ward, Chanwar Hossain in
Ward No. 3., Hafizur Rahman Khokon in
Ward No. 4 and Abu Taher in Ward No. 5.
Advocate Farhana Parveen Munni has
already been elected unopposed in Ward No.
1 (Sherpur Sadar and Sreebardi)
and Umme Kulsoom Renu has
won in Ward No. 2 (Nakla,
Nalitabari and Jhenaigati).
Earlier on Monday, polling for
Zilla Parishad elections started
from 9 am, which continued till
2 pm. The voting was done
through EVM in 10 polling
booths in 5 Upazila Parishad
auditoriums of the district. An
Executive Magistrate as well as a
Judicial Magistrate was on
mobile patrol at each center during the
election.
Sufficient armed police and striking force
including Ansar were deployed in each center
to maintain law and order. There were 743
total voters in 5 upazila Parishad, 4
municipalities and 52 unions in the district.
a construction worker named Saiful Sheikh (25) was killed by a bus in
Kashiani, Gopalganj on Monday.
photo: S M Nazrul Islam
raNGpur: The local administrations,
Awami League and its associate bodies,
other institutions and organizations
have taken programmes to celebrate
the 59th birthday of Shaheed Sheikh
Russel in a befitting manner on
Tuesday, reports BSS.
Officials said the district
administration has chalked out
programmes to celebrate the 59th
birthday of Father of the Nation
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman's youngest son Shaheed
Sheikh Russel, also the youngest
brother of Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina.
The programmes include bringing
out a huge rally with participation of
officials, politicians, students, teachers,
professionals, sociocultural activists,
civil society members and common
people from Zila School to the Town
Hall premises.
Later, high officials of the local
administrations will place wreaths at
the portrait of Sheikh Russel at the
Jaggery trader
fined TK 3
lakh in Natore
lalpur CorreSpoNdeNt:
Sagar Hossain (35), a
jaggery trader was fined 3
lakh taka and evidence of
making 85 maunds of
adulterated jaggery were
destroyed during market
surveillance operation under
Consumer Rights Protection
Act in Lalpur, Natore.
On Monday morning,
Mehedi Hasan Tanveer,
Assistant Director of
National Consumer Rights
Protection Directorate,
Natore, conducted the
operation in collaboration
with RAB-5.
Mehedi Hasan Tanveer
said in this regard, 'Sagar
Gur Bhandar' has been fined
a total of Tk 3 lakh for the
crime of making adulterated
jaggery mixed with
prohibited substances in
food products and
producing or processing the
product by illegal process
under Section 42 and 43 of
Consumer Rights Protection
Act, 2009.
He also said that in this
operation, 3 thousand kg of
adulterant, 280 kg of
chitagur, 65 kg of
hydrosulphate, 20 kg of
alum, 10 kg of dalda, 5 kg
chert, 2 kg of textile chemical
dyes were destroyed. In the
public interest, such
operations will continue to
prevent the production,
storage and sale of
adulterated food products.
Public Library Munch on the Town
Hall premises followed by releasing 58
balloons there in the city.
A health camp will be set up in front
of the Collectorate Surovi Uddyan to
conduct diabetic tests and health
checkups free of cost tomorrow.
Resident children at Government
Shishu Paribars and unprivileged and
slum dweller children will be taken to
Entrainment Park, Children Park and
Rangpur Zoo and 'Vinnojagat' tourist
spot.
After the Johr prayers, doa mehfils,
munajats and special prayers will be
offered at all mosques, temples,
pagodas, churches and other places of
religious worships seeking divine
blessings for eternal peace for the
departed souls of Sheikh Russel and
other martyrs, including Father of the
Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman.
Children will travel Rangpur Police
Lines School and College ground with
flags bearing pictures of Sheikh Russel
and charity football and rugby matches
will be arranged there for boys and girls
at 4 pm.
Deputy Commissioner Md. Asif
Ahasan will preside over a discussion
on the life of Sheikh Russel at the
District Shilpokola Academy
auditorium in the city.
Later, prizes will be distributed there
among winners of essay and drawing
competitions organized marking
celebrations of Sheikh Russel's
birthday in a function to be followed by
a cultural function.
Rangpur City Corporation will
celebrate the 59th birthday of
Shaheed Sheikh Russel through
placing wreaths at his portrait
followed by doa mehfil and
discussion at the City Bhaban
tomorrow. Similarly, Begum Rokeya
University, different educational
institutions and sociocultural
organizations, have taken
programmes to celebrate the day in a
befitting manner in the city.
a jaggery trader was fined 3 lakh taka and evidence of making 85 maunds of adulterated
jaggery was destroyed in lalpur on Monday.
photo: lalpur Correspondent
300 martyred family members attain
self-reliance in a Rajshahi village
rajSHaHI: Around 300 people both
male and female of martyred families
have attained economic emancipation
through income-generating activities
related to handicrafts and handloom
industries at Thanapara village in
Charghat upazila of the district, reports
BSS.
On April 13, 1971, a brutal attack by
Pakistan invaders killed about 400
unarmed men and injured many others
in the Thanapara village that was later
declared as a widow village after
independence.
Representatives of the Swallows in
Sweden came to work for the victims of
the Liberation War in the devastated
village in a post-war time in 1972.
In order to create self-employment
opportunities, they first established
weaving and initially started training 13
widows. At present Thanapara
Swallows Development Society (TSDS)
employs about 350 rural backward
women through handicraft projects.
The women behind these stocks are
making garments through the works of
yarn dyes, weaving fabrics, hand
embroidery and sewing and the
garments are exported to almost eight
countries of the world.
Children's day care and primary
education activities are being carried
out with productive children, including
fair wages, improved working
conditions, transparency and
accountability, child labor avoidance,
gender equality and timely training.
2 fresh Covid-19 cases diagnosed,
30 healed in Rangpur
raNGpur: Two fresh Covid-19 cases were
diagnosed and 30 more patients healed
during the last 24 hours ending at 8 am
today in Rangpur division, reports BSS.
Health officials said the two new Covid-19
positive cases were reported after testing 43
new samples at the positivity rate of 4.65
percent.
"The total number of Covid-19 patients
rose to 64,915 in the division," said
Divisional Deputy Director (Health) Dr Md
Habibur Rahman.
The number of recovered Covid-19
patients rose to 63,549 with the healing of 30
more patients during the last 24 hours in the
division. The number of casualties remained
Nazrul Islam Bachhu, one of the local
elites, said the women workers by
themselves do all the dyeing with hands
without involving any machine. 10
women are working full time under the
supervision of a dyeing master.
He also said many of the beneficiary
people were brought under educational
programmes besides imparting training
on agriculture, fish farming and
vocational crafts for making them
income-generators.
TSDS Executive Director Raihan Ali
told BSS that they are working to
eliminate the causes of poverty in the
remote village and to alleviate suffering.
He said the Thanapara village with
areas of concentration focusing on skills
development for the affected women
which led to the establishment of the
handicraft program and the marginal
women are becoming self-reliant
through producing the products and
selling those to the international
markets. Ali said their mission is to
empower the poor and underprivileged
population by eradicating illiteracy,
creating health awareness and selfemployment,
raising awareness among
the landless for the rights of land and
empowering women by creating
economic and social awareness.
Vision of the venture is to establish a
democratic society by developing the
socio-economic condition of the poor.
Raihan Ali said the embroidery
section is focusing on hand stitching.
Traditional skills and cultural designs
steady at 1,292 as no new death was reported
during the last 24 hours.
Meanwhile, more 58,872 doses of Covid-
19 jabs were administered as the first, second
and booster doses on Sunday raising the
number of inoculated vaccines to three crore
31 lakh 90 thousand and 632 doses in the
division.
Among the administered Covid-19 jabs on
Sunday, 53,300 children aged 5-11 years got
the jabs as the first doses in the division.
"Among the total administered Covid-19
jabs so far, 1,40,70,590 doses were
inoculated as the first doses, 1,32,54,078 as
the second doses and 58,65,964 as the
booster doses," Dr Rahman added.
are being used for making the products.
All the raw materials like threads and
cloth are eco friendly. In this section, 50
women are working full time.
Apart from this, modern machineries
are also being used for stitching,
overlocking and finishing.
Subsequently, each of the finished items
go through acceptance quality label
performance to ensure quality of the
products. There are 35 tailors, including
three cutting masters, in the tailoring
unit. Jahanara Begum, 54, one of many
other rehabilitated beneficiaries, has
been working in the TSDS for around 35
years and made her family self-reliant.
Her mother had joined the factory after
two years of her father's killing in the
barbaric attack.
Begum said they become self-reliant
in the long-run as a result of
establishing different income
generating projects for self employment
contributing to the efforts of poverty
alleviation.
"Our weaving section is famous for its
unique technique as we still run the
traditional handloom for woven the
fabric," she added. They use the same
yarn that they have dyed in the dyeing
section for making the cloth. So, the
clothes made are also eco-friendly. She
opined that utmost emphasis has been
given on advancing and promoting the
equal status of women in the family, as
well as in society, through incorporating
gender issues and awareness-raising
activities and programs.