TISSUE IN THE A.C. ROOM
TISSUE IN A.C. ROOM :
Whatever good quality it could have been, in Bangladesh tissue paper is not still a costly item. In comparison to its price it needs bigger space to store. By this way it has similarity with cotton. The two are also similar in point of inflame ability. Usually this item is produced in quantity as required in the market, such that big storage space is not unnecessarily wasted. Even if a manufacturer for one reason or the other produces excess products, they would look for a less costly space for storage. In emergency these can even be stored in open space and covered with tarpaulin. No one would ever think of storing it in the air-conditioned 16-17th floor of a highly prestigious building because :
(i) Cost of transportation to this height is extremely costly in comparison to its price,
(ii) The product is extremely dangerous because of inflammable quality,
(iii) Air-conditioned room is not essential for this product,
(iv) An air-conditioned floor at that height in a prestigious building is capable of having better use with considerable financial return.
The inquiry committee formed on the fire incident opined that they did not get cooperation from the building authority and that there could have existed some conspiracy in the incident. Did the inquiry committee look into the reason for storing tissue paper at that height ?
The recently published report of the Task-force Interrogation Committee (TIF) among others mentioned the following (Quoted from the report published in News from Bangladesh NFB Sunday March 15, 2009. Some words have been witdrawn for the sake of decency) : "Under the interrogation, Jalil said …….. used to receive money regularly from Basundhara Group chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan Shah Alam, Yusuf Abdullah Harun, Beximco Group's vice-chairman Salman F Rahman, ….. .
Abdul Jalil said Aanbeer, youngest son of Basundhara Group chairman Shah Alam gave him Tk 6 lakh in two separate installments in 2003 and 2004.
Babar said …… he received Tk 20 crore to exempt Basundhara Group's chairman's son Shafaet Sobhan from the murder case of Basundhara Group's director Humayun Kabir Sabbir who was killed in a residence at Gulshan in July last year and his body was later found in roadside drain. …..
The investigators asked Babar how he had got an apartment at Gulshan, 20-25 residential plots at Basundhara, over 100 bighas of land and accumulated millions of taka in banks…. "
The above report is sufficient to indicate the level of honesty of the concerned company. The firm that keep such top leaders of the leading political parties in pay role does not need to cooperate with any inquiry committee formed by the government. Also storing the tissue papers in a/c floor of that height does not seem to have taken without any objective. It is known to all that after such incidents companies look for compensation from insurance and other financial organizations. If the possibility of compensation or gain from other sources seem lucrative, then it is possible for any dishonest company to go for destroying their own properties. Did the lucky tissue papers enjoyed extreme honour and then sacrificed themselves to fulfil someone's 'different type' of intention ? Was the saving of the land documents of the clients unintentional ? How would the people receiving money from this company behave in their hard days ? We shall see all these in the future days. In future we shall forget many things, but probably we shall never forget the lucky tissue papers who used to live in the air-conditioned rooms of an extremely prestigious skyscraper of this poor country and who burnt themselves to ashes for a reason we do not know.
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Prof. Bijon B. Sarma, Head Architecture Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh.
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