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To the Editor...
Poor children
Sir, Recently a meeting of the former Pathakall Trust with Education Minister Jamiruddin Sircar decided to resume the function of the Trust under a new name — Shtshu Kalyan Trust'.
A rose is a rose, what's in a name! However, we warmly welcome the step and hope that the new Shlshu Trust will be successful In rehabilitating the street urchins and other poor children
M Zahidul Haque Assistant Professor, Bangladesh Agricultural Institute, Dhaka
Forest farming
Sir, Recently two Important developments have taken place in the forest sector. First, the Forest Department has been bifurcated, but It remains to be seen If there will be a radical change In the attitude and thinking of the powers to be. Second, a Master Plan has been launched with a great deal of fanfare to promote forestry for the next 20 years in Bangladesh. No details of the plan were published or arc available. However, many such C.ns had been launched In the
t 45 years with little results, because they lacked the one component which Is vital for success. The Induction and participation of dedicated, literate and conscientious sections of the private sector with the minimum of sane, practical
and enforceable laws and free from the smothering embrace of the Forest Department. Forestry must run as a commercial organisation.
This will, perhaps, remain a forlorn hope because the Forest Dcptt recently decided to bring every tree in every village (In Chittagong at least) under the cover of their archaic and ridiculous regulations. The expected repercussions, seen from a widely circulated leaflet, may soon result in thousands of unemployed mint-timber traders, workers and labourers taking to the streets. Surely any useless and unforccablc action, likely to provoke unrest or even violence in these troublesome times, could well have been avoided.
As far as the welfare of my farm Is concerned, either I submit to the ludicrous laws and grease my way through the mire of red tape or refuse to do so. as I have done till now, and watch the farm being gradually whittled and stripped by the touts, maslans, middlemen and poachers who are blessed by an amnesty which is all-enveloping.
Surely it must be obvious to the experts by now that any Imposing edifice such as the master plan Is bound to collapse If built on the foundation of self-interest, impracticably and a merry-go-round where the buck never stops.
In BTVs Mati-o-Manush. on 22.8.92. the DFO. Cox's Bazar.
confessed he could only muster one guard for every 1.500 acres of govt forests. Even If they wanted to they couldn't protect or preserve what they have, much less expand our forestsl
S Stkander Ahmed
Faireen Farms. Chittagong
Worst form of inhumanity
Sir, A couple-of weeks back, there were newsreports that Bangladeshi children were being smuggled to the Middle East countries, for being tied to the camels as forced 'Jockeys'. The fearful cries of the children made the camels engaged in the races run faster. The spectators of these camel racings greatly enjoyed the cries of the little children, and the fast moving camels!
In The Dally Star' issue of the 4th September, there was a picture of seven small Pakistani children, who were on the point of being smuggled to the Middle East, for being used as 'Jockeys' in the camel racings.
The world consciousness must be aroused against the use of small children as camel Jockeys', a degrading and Inhuman sight.
Shahabuddin Mahtab Dhanmandt R/A. Dhaka