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To the Editor
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Bangladeshis in UK
Sir. 1 was Just going through the article — ' Bangladeshis in Britain — profile of a profes; sional family," by Lindsay Mackie, contributor to "The Guardian," London, dated : June 9. 1992. I am Just surprised to note about the wrong picture being flashed about the Bangladeshi community in Britain. The Bangladeshi children have the lowest rate of successfully passing the school, below 1%. while the Indian rate in 19% and Bris-tish rate of passing is 16%. The Bangladeshi girls arc not at all bright to be noteworthy, they are constantly falling as I myself used to teach school children in Londoq. The schools In and around London which enroll Bangladeshi children are below usual British standard and the standard of knowledge these community children receive Is not much better than the rural primary schools In Bangladesh. Most of the Bangladeshis neither speak proper Bengali, nor English. I worked as an interpreter for a Local Council and found some Bangladeshis willfully staying away from work and receiving unemployment benefits, which in Islam Is 'Haram' for a person who can work. The restaurant business is the main source of income for the said community there.
But. it is noteworthy that some families are doing very well, specially in Scotland and outside London areas. They send their children to school
and many of them are highly qualified and well settled, but that is not the whole scenario, it is an exception which cannot be taken as a part of the whole community to be represented.
Anwar I lussain Khilgaon, Dhaka.
Air-conditioners, fridges and cars
Sir, Reduction in the rates on luxury goods like cars, airconditioners and refrigerators will hamper poverty alleviation process and Improvement of environmental degradation. Our richer section of people will take advantage of it and import more and more of these unnecessary, unhealthler luxury items in our poor country without knowing the bad effects of these Items. If wc reduce the tax, then how do we tell the rich to cut down on cars, freezes and alr-condl-tloncrs to save this earth. Government of Bangladesh had signed a convention at Earth Summit al Rio-de-Janeiro recently to protect ozone layer and contain green house effect i.e. warming up of atmosphere.
Richer people must not enjoy comfort at the cost of poorer section and environment. None of these items, their spare parts or feeded gas arc manufactured in Bangladesh. We have to Import these by spending hard earned foreign exchange. Petrol and
diesel exhaust from cars will add green house gases for warming of atmosphere. F-22 for air-conditioners and F-12 for fridges are CFC gases which harm the ozone layer. Again use of air-conditloncrs have some bad effect on the health of occupiers because same air Is re-circulated inside air-conditioned room without much oxygen. Due lo ovcr-populalton and dc-forcslation tn Bangladesh, emission of carbondioxide gas is more In the atmosphere. So more and more carbondioxide gas is recirculated inside the air-condl-tioned room than in a normal ventilated room. Research in Germany says air-conditioning can be a home for bacteria.
Toxins from air-conditioning are blamed for headaches, cough, allergies and eczemas. Alr-condittoning Increases susceptibility to colds because of chill factor. However, the real culprit may be the low relative humidity of refrigerated air. In a Canadian study, schools with high humidity reported 40 per cent fewer cold-relatcd absences than schools with low relative humidity did. Researchers say that good ventilation and vigilant personal hyglence are the most important factors in preventing people from catching and spreading colds.
Our well-to-do people arc enjoying air-condltloncrs without knowing the bad side of tt as pointed out above. To save the country and environment, import of these Items be discourage at least by not reducing the tax or even tax on these items may be Increased to discourage import.
M Alauddin
Refrigeration Engineer and member BSCE
West Nakhal Para, Dhaka.