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Top officials desert KNM for fat salaries at pvt mill

From Quazi Amanullah
KHULNA. July 16; A good number of top officials of Khulna Newsprint MIU recently joined Baslmndhara Paper Mill, creating a crisis of skilled manpower in the KNM. sources said.
The officials, five engineers and two technicians, are getting fat salaries and other financial benefits at least four times more than what they used to get at KNM. they said.
Apart from severe financial crisis, the KNM has been suffering from skilled manpower crisis for three years
The sources said the desertion is a part of a well-knit conspiracy to ruin the KNM.
Latfful Hasan who once served as chief engineer of KNM Is now serving as executive dl-rcctor of Bashundhara, one source said. Two former chief engineers Mozammel Huq and
Ata Saeed have recently been appointed directors of Bashundhara Paper Mill, a private enterprise which has created an Impression in the market with Its quality production.
The incumbent chief engineer of Bashundhara Pnper Mill Yasin Ali had also served as additional chief engineer at KNM
According to a highly placed source, more experienced offi-
cials are going to follow suit. These officials allegedly created a deadlock In production and administrative matters of KNM and instigated the employees of the mill to agitate against the government
Production In KNM remained suspended since July 1 for lack of pulp and funds. Supply of newsprint also stopped as • he stock exhausted, sources said.
The KNM with a daily production capacity of 120 tonnes has also been struggling for long due to floor maintenance and absence of overhauling of age-old machines. Production came to a stop on July 1 alter 30 tonnes of pulp brought from Sylhet could not be used because of poor quality, sources alleged
Newsprint prices continued to soar over (he past few months, making it difficult for
newspapers and publishing houses to cope with the situation.
Hoarders are selling KNM newsprint .it around Tk 40000 per tonne. It was around Ik 30000 a few weeks ago The pricy of Imported newsprints also soared to around I k 51000 petonne from Tk 3-1000 dc-peitdlng on quality, market sortrc es said.