Habibullah Mizan
President and the general secretary respectively of the Communist Party of Bangladesh Manjurul Ahsan Khan and Mujahidul Islam Selim in a statement expressed their concerned over the kidnapping of its Mymensingh city unit president Abdur Rab Mosharaf by religious extremists.
They urged the government to ensure the security of all of their party comrades.
They CPB leaders claimed that the miscreants not only kidnapped Mosharaf, but also tortured him mentally and physically,forcing him to listen to a compact disc of waz (religious sermons), while being forced to take a microbus ride on July 13.
Some unidentified terrorists kidnapped the communist leader when he was returning to his residence at Shehara Nirmalabash area in Mymensingh town.
The two CPB leaders alleged that the kidnappers threatened him to give up left politics and join the Islamic path.
Meanwhile, CPB Mymensingh district president Abdul Aziz Talukder and General Secretary Advocate Imdadul Haque Millat in another statement demanded of the government to immediately arrest the culprits behind the abduction of CPB leader Mosharaf.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
BRTA drive sends time-worn buses, trucks of the city streets
The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) with the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) yesterday conducted a drive against over 20 -25-year old buses and trucks, declared unfit to ply the city roads.
The first day’s drive netted only four buses, seized by the mobile courts, which also slapped fines and realised Tk 1 lakh 94 thousand and 200, filing 236 cases under the Motor Vehicles Ordinance, 1983.
The drive, supported by the Dhaka district administration with 15 mobile courts, each headed by an executive magistrate was aimed at improving the city’s traffic situation, reducing accidents and pollution..
But the drive sent the city’s aging fleets of rickety buses off the roads, producing long ques at bus stoppages and compelling commuters to jostle for a place to stand on their feet in the crowded buses.
It also helped the drivers of auto-rickshaws, taxis and rickshaw peddlers reap a windfall profit charging higher fare than usual making it difficult for many, faring them including school children and their mothers to take a long walk to their destinations.
After the drive, the seized buses were sent to the dumping ground at Kanchpur.
The BRTA also conducted a separate mobile court with it’s own magistrate at the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar.
During the drive, people are seen in long queue as they faced severe transport crisis, said traffic sergeant Nowsher Ahmed while discharging his duties near Jatiya Sangshad.
Additional District Magistrate of Dhaka Amitav Sarker, who supervised 15 mobile courts said, ‘‘We shall continue the ongoing drives until the situation improves to considerable level.”
Explaining the reasons behind lesser number of buses on the streets, Sarker said that being afraid of the drive, the owners of unfit vehicles did not bring their vehicles out of their garages.
BRTA chairman Ayubur Rahman Khan told the Independent “ We will evaluate the progress and try to find out a solution to remedy the plight of the passenger’s during the drive.
The first day’s drive netted only four buses, seized by the mobile courts, which also slapped fines and realised Tk 1 lakh 94 thousand and 200, filing 236 cases under the Motor Vehicles Ordinance, 1983.
The drive, supported by the Dhaka district administration with 15 mobile courts, each headed by an executive magistrate was aimed at improving the city’s traffic situation, reducing accidents and pollution..
But the drive sent the city’s aging fleets of rickety buses off the roads, producing long ques at bus stoppages and compelling commuters to jostle for a place to stand on their feet in the crowded buses.
It also helped the drivers of auto-rickshaws, taxis and rickshaw peddlers reap a windfall profit charging higher fare than usual making it difficult for many, faring them including school children and their mothers to take a long walk to their destinations.
After the drive, the seized buses were sent to the dumping ground at Kanchpur.
The BRTA also conducted a separate mobile court with it’s own magistrate at the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar.
During the drive, people are seen in long queue as they faced severe transport crisis, said traffic sergeant Nowsher Ahmed while discharging his duties near Jatiya Sangshad.
Additional District Magistrate of Dhaka Amitav Sarker, who supervised 15 mobile courts said, ‘‘We shall continue the ongoing drives until the situation improves to considerable level.”
Explaining the reasons behind lesser number of buses on the streets, Sarker said that being afraid of the drive, the owners of unfit vehicles did not bring their vehicles out of their garages.
BRTA chairman Ayubur Rahman Khan told the Independent “ We will evaluate the progress and try to find out a solution to remedy the plight of the passenger’s during the drive.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
57 per cent tenants pay 50 per cent of monthly income as house rent, reveals a survey
Habibullah Mizan
Staff Reporter, The Independent,Dhaka, Bangladesh
Fifty seven percent tenants in the city have to part with almost half of their monthly income as house rent, revealed a recent survey conducted by Nagorik Sanghati, a NGO.
Most of the tenants are from low income and middle-low income groups of people.
Nagorik Sanghati conducted the sample survey among 300 tenants in the city from June 1 to 30 June this year.
Sixteen percent of the tenants spend Tk three thousand to five thousand, thirty seven percent pay Tk five thousand to seven thousand, twenty eight percent pay Tk seven to ten thousand, ten percent pay Tk ten to fifteen thousand , three percent pay Tk fifteen to twenty thousand while three percent pay above twenty thousand, the survey said.
The findings said that fifty percent of the tenants do not know the actual size of their rented premises while seventy three percent have no written contracts with their land owners.
Fifty seven percent of the tenants are not provided money receipts while forty three percent are not supplied the copies of bill of different utility services.
Forty five percent tenants alleged that their land lords increase the house rent every year while fifty percent people are not aware of house rent related laws.
Almost all the tenants favoured uniform policy on house rent.
Staff Reporter, The Independent,Dhaka, Bangladesh
Fifty seven percent tenants in the city have to part with almost half of their monthly income as house rent, revealed a recent survey conducted by Nagorik Sanghati, a NGO.
Most of the tenants are from low income and middle-low income groups of people.
Nagorik Sanghati conducted the sample survey among 300 tenants in the city from June 1 to 30 June this year.
Sixteen percent of the tenants spend Tk three thousand to five thousand, thirty seven percent pay Tk five thousand to seven thousand, twenty eight percent pay Tk seven to ten thousand, ten percent pay Tk ten to fifteen thousand , three percent pay Tk fifteen to twenty thousand while three percent pay above twenty thousand, the survey said.
The findings said that fifty percent of the tenants do not know the actual size of their rented premises while seventy three percent have no written contracts with their land owners.
Fifty seven percent of the tenants are not provided money receipts while forty three percent are not supplied the copies of bill of different utility services.
Forty five percent tenants alleged that their land lords increase the house rent every year while fifty percent people are not aware of house rent related laws.
Almost all the tenants favoured uniform policy on house rent.
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