Fisheries ministry’s control room to remain open till May 16

Md Jahangir Alam, Additional Deputy Police Commissioner of Mirpur Zone distributed the medical equipments among the social workers to fight spread of coronavirus. This picture was taken from Kuait Bangladesh Maitree Govt Hospital on Wednesday.
Md Jahangir Alam, Additional Deputy Police Commissioner of Mirpur Zone distributed the medical equipments among the social workers to fight spread of coronavirus. This picture was taken from Kuait Bangladesh Maitree Govt Hospital on Wednesday.
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BSS, Dhaka :
The control room, introduced by the Fisheries and Livestock Ministry on April 4 to address the crisis in the country’s fisheries and livestock sectors due to the coronavirus outbreak, will remain open till May 16.
The ministry issued an office order in this regard yesterday (Tuesday), a press release said here on Wednesday.
The control room was set up at the Department of Livestock Services in the city’s Farmgate and a hotline number – 02-9122557 – was introduced so that farmers and stakeholders concerned can inform the ministry of the problems they are facing during ongoing coronavirus crisis.
An official of the ministry has been assigned with the responsibility of performing the role of chief coordinator in the control room.
At the same time, instructions have been given to the concerned departments to appoint one officer each from the Fisheries Department and Livestock Services Department in the control room daily.
An assistant director of the Department of Livestock services has been given the responsibility for overall cooperation in the aforesaid work.
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