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A disaster management committee meeting was held on Monday in the upazila parishad hall,
organized by the upazila administration in Naogaon's Atrai.
Photo: Omar Faruk
TCB starts
selling sugar at
TK 55 per kg
DHAKA : The state-run Trading
Corporation of Bangladesh
(TCB) on Monday started selling
sugar at a subsidized rate at
some 11 important and crowded
places of the capital.
People were seen in long
queue this afternoon to buy
sugar at Taka 55 per kg from
the trucks of TCB braving the
inclement weather and incessant
rain.
Such operation of the TCB has
been kept open for all people as
the interested ones alongside the
TCB family card holders can avail
sugar from such operation paying
only Taka 55 per kg. But, any
consumer can buy highest 1 kg of
sugar.
According to a press release, the
TCB trucks are selling sugar at Malibagh
Railgate Super Market, adjacent
road to the Mugda Medical
College, New Market, Mirpur 10
Circle, Rampura Bazar, Motijheel
Shapla Chattar, Mohammadpur
Townhall Bazar, Shantinagar
Bazar, Uttara Azampur Bazar,
Kawranbazar TCB Square, and at
Khamarbari in Farmgate.
Meanwhile, the Directorate of
National Consumer Rights Protection
is holding a meeting on
Monday with the mill owners,
refiners, wholesale and retail
businessmen to keep the supply
and price of sugar stable.
PM to open development
schemes at Payra Seaport
on Thursday
PATUAKHALI : Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina will inaugurate some development
projects at Payra Seaport on Thursday to
equip it with better facilities for smooth
operations.
The development projects include-capital
dredging of the port, inauguration of eight
ships and vessels, inauguration of the first
terminal and construction of a six-lane
approach road and a bridge.
The disclosure came at a preparatory
meeting of the Payra Seaport Authority in
Patuakhali. State Minister for Shipping
Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury chaired the
meeting.
"PM Sheikh Hasina has built the Payra
Seaport to develop the long-neglected
southern region of Bangladesh. I'm already
witnessing a surge in economic activities in
this region brought about by this seaport,"
Khalid said.
Through the capital dredging of the seaport's
Rabnabad channel, a 75km-long,
100-125meter-wide and 10.5meter-deep
channel will be created.
Once operational, a total of 40,000 tons of
cargo or 3000 container-laden ships will be
able to dock. The channel will cost an estimated
Tk 5,000 crore and will be built by
Belgian dredging company-Jan De Nul.
Among the eight vessels to be inaugurated
on Thursday, two are pilot vessels, two are
heavy duty speedboats, one is a buoy laying
vessel, one is a survey boat and two are tugboats.
These ships and vessels will help the
port authority to monitor the arrival and
departure of foreign ships and maintain the
channel.
Once the construction of the first terminal,
the six-lane highway and the bridge is
completed, a total of three foreign ships carrying
containers or bulk cargos will be able
to dock simultaneously at the Payra Seaport.
The terminal will cost Tk 4,500 crore
and will be opened for operation in December,
2023.
The 6.35km-long, six-lane approach road
is being built by the Roads and Highways
Department (RHD). Spectra Engineers
Limited has been given the responsibility of
the construction at a cost of Tk 655 crore.
The road will also be opened to traffic in
December, 2023.
A 1,180 meter-long bridge is being built
over the Andharmanik river to transport
goods of the Payra Seaport. The bridge
will cost Tk 780 crore and will be constructed
over a period of two and a half
years.
Muhibur Rahman Muhib, Member of Parliament
(MP) from Patuakhali-4 constituency
and Rear Admiral M Sohael,
Chairman of Payra Port Authority, among
others, were present at the meeting.
The Prime Minister inaugurated the Payra
Seaport on November 19, 2013.
Dengue death
toll rises to 118
as 5 more die
DHAKA : Five more deaths
from dengue confirmed in 24
hours till Monday morning
raised this year's fatalities from
the mosquito-borne disease in
Bangladesh to 118.
During this period, 903 more
patients were hospitalised with
the viral fever as cases keep rising,
according to the Directorate
General of Health Services
(DGHS).
Of the latest deaths, three
were reported from Dhaka, one
from Mymensingh and another
from Khulna division
With this the Dengue death
toll from Dhaka rose to 70, it
stood at four in Khulna and at
three in Mymensingh.
The dengue death toll
remained unchanged at 36 in
Chattogram division and at five
in Barishal division.
Of the new patients, 575 were
admitted to different hospitals
in Dhaka and 328 outside it,
according to the Directorate
General of Health Services
(DGHS). A total of 3,482
dengue patients, including
2,290 in the capital, are now
receiving treatment at hospitals
across the country.
The Directorate has recorded
31,966 dengue cases and
28,650 recoveries so far this
year.
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