How often AL chamchas respond to these type of facts in Bangladesh?
Are they behaving in similar fashion...as they did in 1972 - 1975, that ALL IS WELL!
Where is DIGITAL BANGLADESH & SHONAR BANGLADESH, for th majority for Bangladeshis?
Havn't we blamed other countries + other forces for our failure and inefficiency, while a group of
people/politicians, have looted public money and living in palaces?
For how long a community like ours can continue, where 5% people are sucking the blood of the rest
and ruling ruthlessly?
khoda hafez.
From: bdmailer@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:48:13 +0600
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Fwd: The promised 10-taka rice
From: bdmailer@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:48:13 +0600
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Fwd: The promised 10-taka rice
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From: Zoglul Husain <zoglul@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 1:46 PM
Subject: RE: The promised 10-taka rice
To: Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com>
From: Zoglul Husain <zoglul@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 1:46 PM
Subject: RE: The promised 10-taka rice
To: Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com>
The report of a mother with 9-month-old baby in arms in a chilly breezy morning queuing in the street for 4 hours to buy subsidised rice, which saves her Tk 55, is a scenario of desperate poverty. How does it compare with last Eid's market report about some saris selling at Tk 250,000 each? The disparity may make many sane heads spin. But, the realisation must be there that the socio-economic problem needs to be redressed.
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:37:10 +0600
Subject: The promised 10-taka rice
From: bdmailer@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:37:10 +0600
Subject: The promised 10-taka rice
From: bdmailer@gmail.com
Pricier the rice, longer the queue
Long queues for open-market-sale rice at Kamrangirchar on the outskirts of the capital
yesterday, an evidence of how people are in need of grains.
Holding her nine-month-old baby in one arm, Salma Khanam braved the chilly morning breeze to buy subsidised rice at the Open Market Sales (OMS) point at Begum Rokeya Sarani in the capital's Mirpur area.She had to wait for more than four hours for her turn.
"I am here for the first time. I dared not come here carrying my baby. But I had to change my mind for the soaring prices of rice," said Salma, wife of a bus helper, who earns Tk 5,000 a month.She said they have to pay a house rent of Tk 2,000 a month and spend nearly Tk 500 on food for the baby.
Like Salma nearly a hundred men and women waited in queues for hours to buy a 5-kilogram pack of coarse rice for Tk 24 a kg.
It saved them at least Tk 55 each as coarse rice now sells at a minimum price of Tk 35 a kg in city markets.
Long queues are now longer and more frequent in almost all OMS points with more people from fixed and lower income brackets thronging them to buy subsidised rice to save money for buying other essentials.Nearly 125 OMS trucks with 3,000 kgs of rice each sell subsidised rice to 75,000 people every five days a week while many return home empty-handed in the city.
The latest picture is a sharp contrast to the one just three months ago when the OMS points drew small crowds.But they started to see longer queues as the gap between the OMS and retail prices of rice, apart from other essentials, widened over the last few months.
Sixty-year-old Aleya Begum said, "It will save us some money to buy vegetables."Another consumer Abdul Khaleque said he had no choice but to take a break from his daily work to buy rice at the OMS point on Tipu Sultan Road in Old Dhaka.People waiting in long queues said rising prices of rice and other essentials forced them to throng the OMS points.
Prices of coarse rice, consumed mainly by people from lower income bracket, went up by 33 percent to Tk 35-37 a kg in the last one year.
Other essentials also saw their prices rise. Prices of unpackaged palm oil soared by 49 percent to Tk 90-92 and onion by 26 percent to Tk 38-44 a kg in city markets.
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