'Project on Gulshan Lake ’
Sir, Being an Interested party I thank the DS for the earlier reports and the above-captioned news published on the "Gulshan Lake" scandal appearing in the paperof 1 August.
Some 300 or more applicants paid the price at the rate many times over the Tk 40.000 per bigha 10 years earlier applying for a plot of land at Gul-shan/Banani/Baridhara. But RAJUK allotted them 5 katha plots at a fictitious area called Baridhara J-Block. The said block has no evidence of existence. Ministers of earlier governments promised early allotment abetting the crime of criminals In RAJUK. even on the sacred floor of ihe Parliament! The RAJUK Chairman made solemn promise of early allotment to the Speaker of the Parliament. During all these time the conniving group were conspiring to sell the land at Taka forty thousand per bigha!
I request the minister to thcrougnly enquire the mystery and "make RAJUK immediately hand over the allottees’ plots in localities for which they made the payment.
A Frustrated Citizen Dhaka
Computers instead of satellite dish
Sir. I think RU authorities are trying their best to educate the students, not to entertain. I read in the DS with dismay regarding plea for satellite dish, why don't they ask for computer upgrades! How many computers does RU have? 1 think these so-called students are living in a fantasy world.
And I must bluntly blame
the politicians for their moronic attitudes. I a n horrified to picture a depressing future for Bangladesh. 1 must attest that the Indian students are far ahead of us because of their acquaintance with sophisticated technology. And it is also easy for them to get funding in US universities due to their prior skills.
If we don't take any action now. all our hopes for the Golden Bangladesh as promised by Bangabandhu will be lost forever. Please stop student politics immediately and inspire them in science and technology. Otherwise we will remain and do as others wish us to do. May be our leaders like to keep us unskilled and ignorant, who knows? We need better computing facilities right now. Satellite dish — NO!
Kaiser Matin
Texas Tech
Lubbock, USA
Culprits must be punished
Sir, The verdict of not-gullty on the four accused police personnel of Seema rape case stunned us. People from all walks of life are outraged and indignant by this gross injustice. being policemen, who are employed to protect people, they should be punished more severely than common people. But what do we see? The law let them go scot-free!
If this is the condition of our country, then our future is doomed — criminals will be more daring, knowing they are free to do anything they want and will smirk at us.
We learned that the Home Minister has ordered a reinvestigation of the case and firmly
assured severe punishment for those found guilty in the rein-vestigatlon. But I am not very optimistic about it. The Home Minister had declared that if he could not control the criminal acts within six months after taking charge of his office, he would resign. But neither happened. Crimes of all sorts are increasing at such a degree that people are at their wit's end.
To please certain quarters, the government must pot act unwisely, people will lose faith In it. Justice must be kept free from slur.
Nur Jahan
East Nastrabad, Chittagong
Do we eat soap?
Sir, Advertisement is a way to publicise commodity. Along with it. there is a codes of conduct to direct the advertisement and every company as well as advertising firm should obey those codes.
We have noticed that a cosmetic company is violating those regulations by its advertisements of soaps. According to Its advertisements, as the company has claimed, all the soaps available in the market have been manufactured from animals' fat and thus those soaps are haram (forbidden) while only its soaps have been manufactured from vegetables fat and thus its products are halal (permitted). The company, . by these advertisements, pointed out the food taboos from the idea of eating pork to Muslims and beef to Hindus.
1 believe the above-mentioned advertisement has hurt the religious sentiment of the people on account of what it is meaning, that we and our relatives. as well as our forefathers
committed acts of haram before the "hundred per cent halal soap" came In the market. The religious context of haram have made the food taboos. But we do not eat soap.
The company, however, should be aware that many lifesaving drugs and injections are being manufactured from different limbs and appendages of animals' body which are haram by same analogy of what those advertisements meant. For instance. the life-saving 'Insulin', for diabetic patients, is being manufactured from the pancreas of an animal like the P‘g or the sheep or the cow. Moreover, the main ingredient of most of the drugs and perfumes is alcohol, which is haram for Muslims. But we cannot disregard those drugs. Therefore, the advertisements of "halal soap" are ridiculous.
Asif Rasheed Dhaka
"The Remote
Neighbour”
Sir, There is no movement of the heart. Transport comes later. Not closed economies — closed minds. Not antl-Bengalee — but the Indo-Pak syndrome.
Party workers in Bangladesh /(polled by the political leaders; hence replacement of the NGO network does not seem feasible right now. Regarding the setting up of 4-tier LG structure, there's many a slip between the cup and the lip. First the central administration reforms.
Where is the Pied Piper of Sonar Bangla?
A Reader Dhaka