Dues of Private Medical demanded in Rangpur
Senior Staff Reporter, Rangpur
The aggrieved officers and employees have locked the main gate of Northern Private Medical College Hospital in Rangpur demanding outstanding salaries. They allege that the directors of the company have stopped their salaries for 28 months due to various challenges. They are living an inhumane life. After the protest rally held in front of Northern Private Medical College Hospital on Burirhat Road in the City on Wednesday (August 24), theofficers and employees hung up the lock. The officials-employees complained that due to the irregularity-corruption and mismanagement of the hospital directors from the assembly earlier, the current situation is prevailing in this service institution. They complained in the rally that from 2020 to June this year, all the nurses, medical technologists, officers and employees of the hospital have not received any salary. After contacting the directors several times at various times, he assured the payment of the arrears. But they kept delaying by arguing on various pretexts. After promising to pay the salary last June 27 before the last Eid-ul-Azha, the directors have not been in touch. Now many of them have switched off their mobile phones and are not even communicating with any of us. Northern Private Medical College Hospital Administrative Officer Abul Kalam Azad, Assistant Administrative Officer Abbas Ali, Taibul Islam, Senior Nurse Anjuara Begum, Ward Master Incharge Habibur Rahman Milon and others spoke at the protest rally.
Fishing boat to be equipped with tracker
Barishal Correspondent
The authourity has been decided to equip offshore and coastal fishing boat with location tracking devices. At least 69 such devices have been installed in the fishing boats of Barishal division in last one month, officials said. With this device not only can track location with the fishing boats, but boat owners also can hear weather signals through this device. Divisional deputy director of Bangladesh Sustainable Coastal and Marine Fisheries Project (BSCMFP) Kamrul Islam in this regard said, in coastal areas, seagoing and coastal fishing boats would be introduced with a location dictation device called Global System of Mobile Communications (GSM), but fishermen are unaware of its functioning. We have already registered 9000 fishing boats in Barishal division whose speed is above 13 horsepower and have started installing a device called AGCM on such fishing boats and trawlers. The process of installing the device started on July 11, so far 44 devices have been installed in sea going fishing boats and trawlers of Charfashion and 25 of Tajumuddin upazilas in Bhola district, he added. This device will basically give an idea about its location and will provide guidance about the whereabouts of the range of the vessel up to 55 km from the coastline.
Through this, the fishing vessels will give a signal about where it is in the water-boundary of Bangladesh. It is even possible to send weather alert messages to the installed device.Although this device has no monitor, it will be controlled from the server located in Chittagong coast.
Initially, 21,000 sea-going fishing boats and trawlers operating on sea-going and coastal areas across the country are likely to be equipped with this device.
Saidur Rahman, marine officer of Charfession upazila of Bhola district, said that although there are 6,000 coastal-fishing boats in the district, only 44 boats have been equipped with this device. Now location could be traced through it. But it is not launched yet, I don’t know when it will be launched.
