KUR1GRAM, Oct 9: Local station has been experiencing an acute crisis of railway wagons for which thousands of maunds ol jute cannot be reached to their destinations, says APB.

This has resulted in a depression in jute market, which, in turn, has made the government to lose revenue ol appiox-imately Tk 33 lakh, local sources said.

They complained it was owing to negligence of the authorities that only five wagons were arranged for transportation of Jute from the station. An average daily requirement was assumed 10-15 wagons.

In view of the scarcity of wagons, local jute traders and jute companies stood to incur staggering losses this year, because local godowns did not have any more room for storing jute. Traders and businessmen could not buy any more jute for want of storage facilities.

A knowledgeable source said usually some 600 wagons carried jute at around this time of the year, as against only five wagons made available this year.

The government usually got Tk 4.700 per wagon. The annual income of the government under this head used to be Tk 32.90 lakh.

Local Jute growers, traders and businessmen urged the railway authorities to increase the supply of railway wagons to save the fine indusiry of the region without delay.