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To the Editor
The guest birds
Sir, The guest birds will come in this month from the North Pole to Bangladesh. Their seasonal resorts in our country are the zoo, Jahanglr-nagar University area, certain lakes, bits and haors. We are supposed to be good hosts but when they come, we cruelly kill them. It is very Indecent for us as civilised people.
To kill any guest bird is an offence internationally. But it has become a regular phenomenon to sell these birds on the roads of Dhaka city and in other places in the country. The authority concerned should' take steps to save these guest birds and should make those zones safer for them.
Maeen Uddin Saba/ 514 Zia Hall Dhaka University
Fire blazers and quenchers
Sir, It is puzzling to read (DS front-page Nov 13) that to fight a fire In the Savar DEPZ, tne fire engines had to rush from Mohammadpur and Tongi, miles away from the industrial Site.
The EPZs are large enough areas (with raw and finished materials worth tens of crores of Taka) qualifying to have in-
dependent fire stations within or near the sites.
The absence of fire-fighting devices at the garment factories located in the residential areas in the Dhaka city is another sad story of negligence by the administration (fire-fighting is a public service — and compulsory).
In contrast, our politicians have the enviable reputation of being fire-brands. They can ignite. but not quench fires. The other night I was watching the TV proceedings of the JS during which the MPs were sermonising their own colleagues in the absence of the Opposition.
(Old) habits die hard.
A Zabr Dhaka.
Attracting investors
Sir. It was so very considerate of Chairman. Security A Exchange Commission to have written a letter to the authorities concerned to ask institutional buyers to 'actively' participate in the market in order to salvage it from a critical state. (According to an English dally dated November 16. 1997). As a very small investor, I appreciate the move but have the following comments to offer.
Investors — small, big or institutional perhaps come to the
market with only one motive i.e.. to make profit. And this profit has to be necessarily more than the available guaranteed profit schemes like fixed deposits, ICB units etc. But earning of such profit is only possible when (a) dividend yields of the listed companies are more than the current fixed deposit rates and/or (b) demand for the listed shares are more than supply in the market for any reason. No investor would come to the market unless one or both of these conditions are met resulting in continuous fall of the index with no agency being able to do anything about It.
Perhaps it is quite clear from the above that if the market is to be revitalised then there are no options but to take, at the very least, the following steps:
a. To give sufficient Incentives to the listed companies (for example, improved infrastructural facilities, further reduction in corporate tax etc) so that it is possible for those to give Increased dividends.
b. To further reduce Interest rates of secure Investments like fixed deposits etc., to a level which may perhaps be marginally above the ongoing inflation rates.
Farhat S A Roomy
House No. 477, Road No 32
New DOHS. Dhaka 1206