KUHST1A. Mar 2: Three brickfield owners and a manager of another brickfield of sadar thana were fined for violating ban on using firewood for manufacturing bricks on Monday, reports UNB.

A mobile court headed by Magistrate Kamaluddin Talukdar fined them Taka 10,000 each, in default, he ordered to seize and sell the materials of the brickfields in auction.

Mentionable that local elite brought the matter to the notice of the district administration time and again that trees, 'bamboo clusters and valuable Immature timber are being felled in the district indiscriminately for use as firewood In the brickfields.

The brickfield Owners violating the government ban were using thousands of maunds of firewood for manufacturing bricks instead of using coal. *

Local leaders expressed satisfaction over the action of the mobile court and called upon them to investigate other brickfields without further delay for necessary action.

Another report says: A discussion meeting was held at the Diabetic Society unit office here on Monday to mark the Diabetes Awareness Day,