Sahara asks people to arrange own security before leaving Dhaka
The home minister, Sahara Khatun, on Tuesday called on city residents to make security arrangements on their own for houses and business establishments before leaving Dhaka to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha in outlying areas.She said that the law enforcement agencies would remain alert and on patrol during the Eid holidays beginning in the first week of November to keep order.
The minister, presiding over a law and order meeting at the secretariat, asked the owners of apparel factories to pay wages to the workers before Eid, likely to be celebrated on November 7.She said that mobile courts would be in operation in and around cattle markets in Dhaka and across the country to keep law and order.
'A large number of people, many of them businessmen, leave Dhaka to celebrate Eid with their family in village homes. I ask them to make some security arrangements locally for shopping malls, markets and houses before leaving the city fopr Eid,' Sahara said at a press briefing after the meeting.The police and the Rapid Action Battalion would continue with regular patrol during the time, she, however, said.
Lawmakers for constituencies in Dhaka city, heads of law enforcement agencies, senior officials concerned and representatives of the Bangladesh Tanners' Association, among others, attended the meeting and discussed ways to check smuggling of hide out of the country as a huge number of animals would be sacrificed for Eid-ul-Azha.
The BTA president, Shahin Ahmed, sought measures to contain crimes and extortion in hide trade after Eid. He also sought security for bank transitions at Postagola and Hazaribagh where most of the tanneries are located.
Sahara said that crimes and extortion would not be allowed. She asked the businessmen to use machines to identify forged notes as some quarters become active during Eid to circulate forged notes.Mobile law enforcement teams will be deployed on roads and waterway leading to cattle markets to check harassment of sellers and buyers of sacrificial animals.
The home minister asked the Border Guards Bangladesh to strengthen vigilance in the frontiers so that the hide does not get smuggled into neighbouring countries.The meeting decided that no one would be allowed to carry hide of sacrificial animals from the Dhaka city to check smuggling.Sahara directed the authorities concerned to set up closed-circuit television cameras at city cattle markets to tighten security systems.
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