Sylhet city dwellers are in extreme woes as water crisis is going from bad to worse here with the onset of summer.Scarcity of pure drinking water amid extreme heat is making life of the townspeople unbearable and the situation is getting worse gradually, the residents experienced serious water crisis in different areas including at Mirabazar, Kumarpara, Upashahar, Dargah Mohalla, Darshan Deuri, Danriapara, Mirzajangal, Shahieidgah, Sheikhghat, Ponitula, Bagbari, Chalibandar, Manipuri Rajbari, Ambarkhana Barobazaar, Shibganj and Subid Bazaar.Every day, people are seen...
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Ariful Haque Chowdhury, Mayor of Sylhet City Corporation has declared smoke free Sylhet City Corporation. He said that 27 ward offices of Sylhet City Corporation would be smoke free from 1st September 2014 and all other public spaces and public transport would also be smoke free while he was present as chief guest in a view exchanging session on ‘Smoke Free Sylhet City Corporation’ organized by CTFK and SCC. Sylhet City Corporation will form ward base smoke free committee headed...
Human right activist Aklima Bibi has sought role of media in attaining national progress as Bangladesh is now on the way to development and making its endeavor towards flourishing democratic process. ‘It is our sacred responsibility to nourish and foster this development process through concerted efforts so that a happy and prosperous country is established,’ he said this while talking to journalists at Sylhet city on Friday.Aklima Bibi said, “No barrier for education” British girls promoting girls education in rural...
Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) on Sunday announced a budget of Tk312.12 crore for the 2014-15 fiscal year. Ariful Haque Choudhury, mayor of Sylhet, announced the budget bereft of any new taxes at a crowded press conference in a city hotel.In the budget, the SCC estimated that Tk66.13cr would be provided from its own income while the remainder would be provided by the government and development agencies.Major development expenditures include Tk40cr for infrastructure development and expansion projects; Tk30cr for the construction...
Various modes of vehicles ply on the roads of Sylhet region are being overloaded with passengers and goods posing risk of accident any moment. The drivers recklessly run these vehicles, especially minibuses, on the roads of Sylhet, Sunamgonj, Moulovibazar, Hobigonj and neighbouring districts with passengers and goods beyond their capacity, leaving both the riders and pedestrians in fear of meeting accident any moment. Regardless of people’s safety, they run the vehicles mostly according to their whims and caprices. Sources said...
Youths and many farmers in Dakshin Surma upazila of Sylhet district are now eagerly Fish farmings as it brings much profit than that of other cultivations. Syed Boshor Ali, also an inhabitant of Fuldi village in Dakshin Surma upazila of the district said he has become self-reliant by Fish farming. At first he received training from District Jubo Unnayan Training Centre and then he started farmin fish and rearing cows but he could not get much profit from that, he...
Drivers of both four-stroke CNG-run auto-rickshaw and rickshaw have created anarchy in the Sylhet city by demanding high fares from the passengers following recent embargo on movement of battery-driven rickshaws.The four-stroke CNG baby taxies are also charging extra money from the passengers as those are running without meters on the city streets.The CNG owners and drivers are violating rules and charging fares arbitrarily. And the SMP authorities now remain indifferent to action against the defaulters.Sources concerned said nearly 5,000 CNG...
Several major roads in the Sylhet city go under ankle to knee-deep water even after a light rain, allegedly due to poor drainage system, causing immense sufferings to the city’s people. During a visit to several areas yesterday morning, this correspondent saw a number of main roads in the city, including Old Bus Stand-Railway Station Road, Zindabazar, Tatipara, Jerjeripara, Laldhigirpar, Mirabazar, Shibgonj roads in Sylhet city went under knee-deep water following an hour-long light rainfall in the morning.The rain water...
Two hundreds of drug stores, popularly known as pharmacies, have been running their business, in almost every corner of Sylhet city and district without license, flouting regulations of the drug administration. Besides, the owners of these medicine shops have been selling low quality, banned, contraband and date-expired medicines under the nose of the law enforcing agencies, endangering the life of the people. It is alleged that the Drug Control Department, Sylhet has taken no action against the ‘dishonest’ traders. Sources...
About 10,000 poor women in 12 upazilas of Sylhet district have achieved economic self-reliance through various income generating activities during the last ten years.The women and girls with their own initiatives have taken training on various income generation programme from local Women Affairs Department, Youth Development Department and Livestock Department, sources concerned said.These departments have also extended credit facilities to the women to help them undertaking different projects side by side with creating marketing facilities of their products, the sources...
Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) has been implementing an integrated development project in greater Sylhet aims at improving overall living and livelihood condition of the rural people in general.The two year project being implemented in 12 Upazilas in Sylhet districts with an estimated cost of around Taka 200 crore.LGED has been extending financial support worth around Taka 200 crore to implement the project that is being executed with the main thrust of increasing rural income and reduce rural poverty through...
Village courts are gaining popularity in the district day by day with people resolving small dispute locally without going to police or district courts. Set up at the offices of Union Parishad, the village courts are speedily settling criminal and civil cases involving amount of money not above Taka 25,000. Currently, the village courts at 6 unions in Dakshin Surma upazilas of the Sylhet district are contributing immensely to establishing social justice by resolving small disputes. As per the procedure...
