Our Correspondent :
Officials of the Chuadanga district administration on Monday confirmed that bamboo sticks were being used as alternative to iron rod in the construction of a government-funded building in the district.
Damurhuda Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Faridur Rahman submitted a written statement to Deputy Commissioner (DC) Chuadanga in this regard.
In his statement, UNO said media reports on the issue are true.
Beside, the district administration also formed a three-member probe body to investigate the matter.
Abdur Razzak, additional deputy commissioner (ADC-rev), will lead the committee.
Another team led by a deputy secretary of the Ministry of Agricultural reached Chuadanga yesterday to investigate the matter.
The committee will re-check the report that has been submitted by a three-member committee headed by Soumen Shaha, director of Biological Research Wing of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) in Dhaka.
Sources said the Soumen Shaha’s committee submitted the report to the ministry on Monday.
The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) of Chuadanga last year got a Tk 2.41 crore fund to build the two-storey Biological Research Centre and Lab in Darshana under Damurhuda upazila. Joy Construction Ltd of Dhaka is constructing the building.
So far, 65 percent work has been done and the building was scheduled to be handed over to the DAE in June.
Recently, some local youths came to know about some “gross anomalies” in the work.
They visited the building Thursday noon and asked the workers about the materials used in construction of walls and outside louvers. But the workers refused to say anything.
Later local people forced the workers to break a louver. The bamboo sticks soon became visible.
