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Taka 13.25 er Biman ticket money yet to be realised

By Nazmul Ashraf
The national flag-carrier Bl man is yet to realise Tk 13.25 crore in outstanding dues on tickets issued on credit to a wide range of its institutional customers. Airline sources said.
This total debt includes a huge airfare bill of Taka 3.1 crore owed by the government on tickets purchased for the frequent foreign travels of former President Lt Gen Hussain Muhammad Ershad and his wife Raushan Ershad. the sources added.
According lo Biman's accounts records. Taka 5.94 crore is currently owed by various government ministries •nd departments, foreign missions, aid agencies and others, of which. Taka 4.73 crore by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs alone.
The entire 5.94 crore taka debt has been on tlckcls purchased since the present government look office Iasi year, the sources Informed The Dally Star.
Of the total amount In credits. Btman Is owed Taka 4.21 crores from Its approved travel agencies. Of them Messers Acroltna's tone debt Is Tk 1.27 crore.
According to Blman sources, the national airlines has. meantime. filed eases against 14 approved travel agencies defaulting in payments worth Tk 1.21 crore.
Filing of the eases followed Biman's recent decision lo suspend selling tickets on credit from July 1 to clients, except the government, sources said, adding that Blman was yet to take legal action against the defaulting clients listed in a recently-prepared customer ledger.
Following Biman's drive to realise Us dues. Taka three crore was collected from the Prime Minister Secretarial in July, source said adding that Biman was yet to the realise the fare for the Prime Minister's recent stale visit lo Jakarta. Bahrain. New Delhi. New York and Pakistan.
A meeting of the Blman Board of Directors Sunday directed the concerned authorities lo prepare the air-fare bills on these visits, sold an official.
The meeting after reviewing the latest situation on the clients debts to Btman also decided to gear up steps to realise the dues and continue
the cases against 14 approved travel agencies, he added.
Biman's customer ledger listing 66 clients belonging to the government ministries and departments, foreign missions, aid agencies and travel agents shows that1 the Foreign Ministry is followed by the Prime Minister Secretariat with a debt of Tk 13.75 lakh. Home Ministry — Tk 11.72 lakh. Parliament Secretarial — Tk 9.08 lakh, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) — Tk 6.61 lakh. Planning Ministry — Tk 4.45 lakh. Bangladesh Table Tennis Federation — Tk 2.21 lakh, CARE International, Bangladesh — Tk 2.19 lakh. Finance Ministry —Tk 1.43 lakh, Bangladesh Cricket Control Board — Tk 1.27 lakh and President's Secretariat — Tk 1.03 lakh.
The ledger prepared last month (August ) shows that Blman owes only Taka 1500 lo the World Bank office In Dhaka and that the lowest amount of. Taka 50 only Is owed lo Blman by the Royal Danish Embassy tn Dhaka.
Other clients In the debt list included USAID, Australian High Commission. British High Commission. Iraq Embassy. Ministries of Commerce. Power. Communications. Information. Shipping, Civil Aviation. Culture. Labour and Manpower, Law and Justice. Flood Control. Agriculture. Fisheries. Food, Jute, Industries. Religious Affairs. Petroleum. LORD, Aslan Ikweiopment Bank. Sonargaon Hotel. MISC, Army Headquarters. Air Headquarters, Export Promotion Bureau. High Commission of India. Padma Oil Company Ltd and the Polish Embassy.