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To the editor
Post office needed
Sir. Harati UP of Lal-monirhat Sadar Thana has no post office. I am by birth an in-nabitant of Hlramanlk village of Harati UP. From my house, the nearest post office was Mo-hendranagar, which was 7 km away. And this post office usually delivered mails/letters very Irregularly to the village. Recently, the responsibility of delivering mall/letters to Hl-ramanik village has been shifted from Mohendranagar post office to Kursharnari post office to make the situation even worse. From our house it takes about two hours to reach Kursharnari. as there is no direct road from Hlramanlk to Kursharnari and during the rainy season it becomes very difficult to go there.
It may be mentioned here that. Hlramanlk Is a very big village with about 10 thousand inhabitants. A number of college and university students hailing from the village, are studying at different places throughout the country and abroad as well. They have no other alternative but to use the
post office in order to communicate with their families and acquaintances.
Therefore, on behalf of the inhabitants of Hlramanlk village. I would like to request the authority concerned to establish a new post office at Okrabari Bazar of Harati Union Parishad of Lahnonirhat Sadar Thana as early as possible, which will be the nearest and easily communicable post office for the inhabitants of Hira-manik.
Islam Md Fakrul University oj Tsukuba Japan
Telephone dilemma
Sir. For quite sometime, we are unable to make telephone calls to US. Especially those numbers with code no-662. But somehow private telephone booth operators manage to get connected to the desired number. This only highlights the inefficiency of the T&T Board.
Will the T&T authorities please make necessary adjust-
ments in their computer system so that American telephone with code no-662 can be reached easily.
Needless to say that this will also prevent further loss of revenue to the T&T Board.
Abul Mohsin
40. Siddheswari, Dhaka
“Naming culture”
Sir. This Is with reference to the DS letter of Ms Nur Jahan of 25th June 2000, in response to my letter published on June 13. 2000 wherein she claimed that establishments of a country should be named after President. Prime Minister, King or renowned persons only. Yes, I do agree to her opinion. But at the same time I still do not understand the reason of her objection to the naming of Patenga Airport as M.A. Hannan Airport as he Is indeed a renowned person. For the writer's Information, every country should honour its renowned and notable personalities. Ms Jahan can easily make out if she so desires from
the annals of history that have occurred both in Asia and other parts of the world. Leningrad. Starlingrad. Ho Chi Minh City are some of the burning examples.
In her letter. Ms Jahan has also asked me to cite an example of at least one country where after a party came to power it started changing the names of different establishments. In this regard. 1 would like to inform her that politics is not my cup of tea. I believe in pragmatism. total and complete allegiance to our great war of liberation. And I always salute our heroes who sacrificed their lives for a better tomorrow.
Uttam Das
Logistic Shipping Services. Chittagong
Loadshedding
Sir. Loadshedding has turned out to be a regular feature in Parbatipur. Nutan Bazar and Puratan Bazar areas. Everyday. the irritating power disruption starts from 7 PM to 8:30
PM and then again from 10 PM to 1 1 PM. The situation turns worse when the loadshedding continues for more (han (Inee four hours. If (his be the state then it is better to slop supplying power altogether than running it In such an erratic manner.
Sultan Mahmoud
Nutan Bazar. Parbatipur Dinajpur
What is our priority?
Sir. It is a matter of great sorrow that now-a-days we hardly come across any good news.
The whole country is besieged with crimes of every sorts, people are passing their days in fear and anxiety, the situation is deteriorating day by day. If the government does not act fast to improve the situation. the day is not far away when our country will be marked as the most
'formidable' country in the world and foreigners will refuse to stay or come to Bangladesh.
But the government is busy arranging tournaments and holding convention of different sorts as if to prove that the country is in a very stable condition. people are happy and enjoying a peaceful life. But if they had any Inklings that to arrange Pepsi Asia Cup Cricket tournament to be played in flood lights many parts of Dhaka city had to go under complete darkness for over ten hours, in the sweltering heat peoples sufferings knew no bounds and the whole country had been affected by power shortage, then would they still have arranged the tournament?
From now on. the government should think twice before arranging such events for it’s their duty to first ensure a secure and peaceful life to the citizens and then arrange events and entertainment.
Nur Jahan Chittagong