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Dateline Khulna

Financial constraint hampers development of Khulna City

Our Khulna office
KHULNA Apr 7: A delegation of the Khulna Development Action Coordination Committee (KDACC) met the Mayor of Khulna City Corporation and the Divisional Commissioner AKM Fazlul Haque Mia on Thursday to discuss different aspects of their movement for development of the Khulna City.
The Divisional Commissioner and the City Mayor mentioned acute financial constraint of the Corporation and sought all possible cooperation of the KDACC leaders tn realising holding taxes amounting to Taka about eight crores for which many development projects could
KDACC which is the all party unity forum apprised the City Mayor of their action programme and requested the corporation authority to come forward with new projects for the city's development.
The Leaders of the KDACC were Abu Muhammad Ferdaus. Advocate Kazi Abdus Salam. Haider Gazi Saiahuddin Runru Shayamol Singha Roy and Sk Ashrafozzaman The KDACC leaders also urged the Mayor to consider the demands of the workers of the City Corporation who are at present staging a week-long action programme against certain decision of the Corporation authority.
The City Corporation cancelled the pay scale of the fourth class employees and cut off some benefits.
The workers meanwhile gheraoed the City Corporation Wednesday last and brought out processions and asked to withdraw the anti-workers decision.
The Mayor assured the KDACC leaders to do his best by apprising the LGRD Ministry of the situation. But a leader of the agitating workers Saturday told The daily Star that the corporation Friday issued a notice asking workers to resume normal duties otherwise they would be terminated.
Smuggled goods flood markets
Reduction of price of local sugar by Taka 2.32 paisa per kg could not check smuggling of Indian sugar into Khulna markets and at the advent of Eld-ul-Fftar the local markets have been flooded with Indian sarees of different fibres.
Pouring in of Indian bulls has also increased substantially in the past few weeks. Fruits of Indian origin are abundantly available at Khulna and sur rounding markets. As reported. most of the fruits dealers have no import licences and as such, smuggling of fruit is presumably learnt to be rampant.
According to some sugar dealers of Khulna Baru Bazar reduction of price of local sugar will not help much be cause Indian sugar sales at only Rupees six per kg which might be sold in our markets at a competitive rate even the price of local sugar reduced to taka 20 per kg
The ration dealers under Khulna metropolitan rationing area found to be reluctant In lifting their quota even the sugar price was lowered However, an official of Khulna rationing office told this correspondent that they were ex peeling of U ft Ing sugar quota by the ration dealers