India exports Bangladesh jute
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Saturday, February 6, 2010
[ALOCHONA] India exports Bangladesh jute
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[ALOCHONA] Admission trade nets Tk 1cr in 3 colleges
Admission trade nets Tk 1cr in 3 colleges
The student finally had to enrol for management paying top BCL leaders Tk 25,000-Some 200 such cases have occurred in Kobi Nazrul College this yearLeaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League have made a huge sum of money from students seeking admission to first-year honours courses at different city colleges under National University.(The Daily Star)
They have grabbed over Tk 1 crore through this illegal admission trade at just three colleges in the capital--Dhaka College, Eden Women's University College and Kobi Nazrul College--promising them to ensure their desired subjects, said BCL insiders at these institutions.
Top two central leaders of the student organisation of the ruling Awami League are also involved in this admission trade, sources inside the BCL told The Daily Star.In some cases, teachers of colleges concerned are also involved in this illegal practice under pressure from BCL leaders while a few teachers having connections with the BCL leaders get involved on their own.
The BCL leaders have recently raised their demand after the National University authorities decided to go online for the admission process for Dhaka College and Suhrawardy College, the sources said.
One leader of Kobi Nazrul College unit of BCL told The Daily Star that one student secured 524th position on the merit list in commerce group but he was given history, a humanities group subject, instead of any subject of commerce group although there were some seats left in that group.The student finally had to enrol for management paying top BCL leaders Tk 25,000.
The BCL leader said some 200 such cases have occurred in Kobi Nazrul College this year.
Sources said President Mahiuddin Sarkar and General Secretary Munna of BCL unit in that college control the admission trade.Officials of the institution said the college has in total 1,520 seats for first-year honours courses, of which 600 are in humanities group, 520 in commerce and 400 in science group.
Usually, some seats are reserved for BCL leaders under what they call "political" quota. Teachers involved in the admission trade tell students that there are no seats left in some specific subject and later enrol students nominated by BCL leaders, the sources told The Daily Star.
At least 30 people were injured in a clash between BCL units of Jagannath University and Kobi Nazrul College over admission trade on January 28.
BCL sources said the clash ensued when a few BCL men of Kobi Nazrul College beat up Joy and Shafayet, members of Jagannath University unit of the party, who came to lobby for a student's admission.
The admission trade in Eden Women's University College is controlled by BCL unit President Jasmine Shamima Nijhum and General Secretary Farzana Yasmin Tania, insiders said.
BCL activists contact admission seekers and take them to the top leaders to fix the amount for their admission.
They then collect the photocopy of the admit cards of admission seekers, two copies of passport size photographs, photocopies of their SSC and HSC transcripts and give those to an influential teacher of the college. The teacher then nominates students for their desired subjects, sources said.
A student seeking admission to the college said her name was on the merit list in commerce group but she could not get a subject in that group. The teachers told her that there were no seats left in that group and nominated her for political science.
The college has 1,175 seats in the science group, 920 seats in commerce group and 2,570 seats in humanities group, according to officials.
A BCL leader there said an admission seeker securing 1057th position on the merit list was enrolled for a commerce group subject in exchange for Tk 30,000 bypassing a few who secured better positions on the list.
According to the leader, around Tk 15 lakh has so far been accumulated through the admission trade at Eden College.
When contacted, Eden College BCL President Nijhum said two expelled organising secretaries of the party--Sharmi and Happy--are making these allegations against them.
"I have not visited the campus for two days to avoid such allegations. Our principal has also asked us not to go to her during admission process, which would otherwise give people scopes to spread such allegations against us," she said.Eden College Principal Prof Mahfuza Chowdhury could not be contacted over her cell phone.
BCL leaders in Dhaka College had stopped the admission process demanding 500 seats under "political" quota, which prompted the National University authorities to introduce the online admission process.
BCL sources said their leaders had taken around Tk 20,000 in advance from some 50-60 students each.When contacted, Mahiuddin Sarkar, president of Kobi Nazrul College BCL unit, said a few students of Jagannath University might have made such allegations against them."This year the college authorities and we sat together and decided to make the admission process free and fair. No one of Bangladesh Chhatra League is involved in such illegal trade," he said.
http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=125229
http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2010-02-07/news/40719
http://jugantor.info/enews/issue/2010/02/07/news0395.php
http://www.newagebd.com/2010/feb/07/front.html
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[ALOCHONA] Indian SC order may hit Lafarge plant at Chhatak
Indian SC order may hit Lafarge plant at Chhatak
An order by the India's Supreme Court to halt limestone mining by Lafarge in the country's north-eastern state of Meghalaya may hit production at the French cement giant's 255 million US dollars state-of-the-art Bangladesh plant at Chhatak in Sunamganj district, reports bdnews24.com.
A three-judge bench of India's apex court headed by chief justice K G Balakrishnan passed the order to temporarily halt limestone mining by Lafarge Umiam Mining Private Limited (LUMPL) at Nongtrai in East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya.
However, the court order will not immediately halt production at the LSCL Chhatak plant as it has allowed the LUMPL to export the already mined limestone lying at its site in Meghalaya to the plant across the India-Bangladesh Border.
"We are studying the order of the Honourable Supreme Court," the LUMPL said in a statement. A wholly-owned subsidiary of the Lafarge Surma Cement Limited (LSCL), LUMPL added "we would for the next hearing on March 19".
The court order followed a plea from a local tribal organisation which claimed that limestone mining by Lafarge at Nongtrai was posing a threat to environment and changing rainfall pattern in the area. The apex court said that it would not allow limestone mining in the eco-fragile area. It asked the LUMPL and LSCL to halt mining for a month.
Nongtrai is in the vicinity of Cherrapunji, which had once received maximum rainfall in the world and had earned the sobriquet of 'the wettest place on earth'.
The LUMPL has so far been transporting limestone mined from Nongtrai to the cement plant of the LSCL and Spanish company Cementos Molins at Chhatak by a 17 kilometre long cross-border conveyer belt. The LSCL plant at Chhatak has a capacity of producing 1.5 ton cement every year.
The Shella Joint Action Committee (SJAC), a local organisation, had filed a lawsuit alleging that rainfall in and around Nongtrai had fallen substantially due to large-scale deforestation caused by limestone mining by Lafarge.
The SJAC's lawyer Samiran Sharma said that the committee had alleged that Lafarge was operating in a destructive way that would have long-term implications for the people of Meghalaya and northeastern India and their control over indigenous lands and right to use the resources in a sustainable way.
Indian ministry of environment and forest in April 2007 had stopped the LUMPL's operation in Nongtrai. But the Supreme Court in an interim order on November 23, 2007 had allowed the company to continue mining.
The SJAC pointed out that while large-scale denudation of forest had lessened rainfall, what added to the problem was the fact that rainwater flowed off instead of being retained in the hilly stretch.
The organisation alleged that LUMPL had obtained environmental clearance by misrepresenting to the Indian government that it would carry out mining in "wasteland and non-forest area consisting mainly of barren land, and rocks", although the area had thick forest
The Supreme Court also directed the multi-national to submit a report on stocks of limestone lying on the site of mining within three days to the Central Empowered Committee appointed by it.
Senior advocate PS Narasimha, who also appeared for the SJAC, pointed out that tribal land had been transferred to the LUMPL by the state government of Meghalaya for mining in violation of laws of the land. The Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution prohibits transfer of tribal land to non-tribal individual or entities.
The SJAC spokesperson F Chestland Langri said in Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya, that his organisation was happy over the Supreme Court's order. He said that the SJAC would continue its fight against Lafarge to stop its mining operations in the state.
http://newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidRecord=303967
A three-judge bench of India's apex court headed by chief justice K G Balakrishnan passed the order to temporarily halt limestone mining by Lafarge Umiam Mining Private Limited (LUMPL) at Nongtrai in East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya.
However, the court order will not immediately halt production at the LSCL Chhatak plant as it has allowed the LUMPL to export the already mined limestone lying at its site in Meghalaya to the plant across the India-Bangladesh Border.
"We are studying the order of the Honourable Supreme Court," the LUMPL said in a statement. A wholly-owned subsidiary of the Lafarge Surma Cement Limited (LSCL), LUMPL added "we would for the next hearing on March 19".
The court order followed a plea from a local tribal organisation which claimed that limestone mining by Lafarge at Nongtrai was posing a threat to environment and changing rainfall pattern in the area. The apex court said that it would not allow limestone mining in the eco-fragile area. It asked the LUMPL and LSCL to halt mining for a month.
Nongtrai is in the vicinity of Cherrapunji, which had once received maximum rainfall in the world and had earned the sobriquet of 'the wettest place on earth'.
The LUMPL has so far been transporting limestone mined from Nongtrai to the cement plant of the LSCL and Spanish company Cementos Molins at Chhatak by a 17 kilometre long cross-border conveyer belt. The LSCL plant at Chhatak has a capacity of producing 1.5 ton cement every year.
The Shella Joint Action Committee (SJAC), a local organisation, had filed a lawsuit alleging that rainfall in and around Nongtrai had fallen substantially due to large-scale deforestation caused by limestone mining by Lafarge.
The SJAC's lawyer Samiran Sharma said that the committee had alleged that Lafarge was operating in a destructive way that would have long-term implications for the people of Meghalaya and northeastern India and their control over indigenous lands and right to use the resources in a sustainable way.
Indian ministry of environment and forest in April 2007 had stopped the LUMPL's operation in Nongtrai. But the Supreme Court in an interim order on November 23, 2007 had allowed the company to continue mining.
The SJAC pointed out that while large-scale denudation of forest had lessened rainfall, what added to the problem was the fact that rainwater flowed off instead of being retained in the hilly stretch.
The organisation alleged that LUMPL had obtained environmental clearance by misrepresenting to the Indian government that it would carry out mining in "wasteland and non-forest area consisting mainly of barren land, and rocks", although the area had thick forest
The Supreme Court also directed the multi-national to submit a report on stocks of limestone lying on the site of mining within three days to the Central Empowered Committee appointed by it.
Senior advocate PS Narasimha, who also appeared for the SJAC, pointed out that tribal land had been transferred to the LUMPL by the state government of Meghalaya for mining in violation of laws of the land. The Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution prohibits transfer of tribal land to non-tribal individual or entities.
The SJAC spokesperson F Chestland Langri said in Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya, that his organisation was happy over the Supreme Court's order. He said that the SJAC would continue its fight against Lafarge to stop its mining operations in the state.
http://newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidRecord=303967
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