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Cattle Markets

DCCs set to double revenues on competitive bidding

Two mayors' role to ensure fairness, prevent influence makes it possible

Helemul Alam and Hasan Jahid Tusher
Competitive bidding process and less influence of "powerful” syndicates helped two Dhaka city corporations to earn more than double revenue from the makeshift cattle markets this year.
The scenario was quite opposite in the past several years when the syndicates used to manipulate it and win the bidding by offering less price and the city corporations were deprived of the revenues.
This year there will be 22 makeshift cattle markets in the capital - 14 under Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and eight under Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC).
The earning of DSCC was Tk 3.23 crore in 2014 from 10 markets which was around Tk 4.38cr in 2015 from 10 makeshift cattle markets but this year it's going to be aroundTk 9.94cr.The DNCC earned Tk 6.93cr from seven markets in 2014 which wasTk 5.9cr from five markets in 2015 and this year it will be around Tk 8.19cr.
Sources in the city corporations said this year both the mayors played active roles to remove those anomalies to increase the corporations'revenues.
The mayors even cancelled bidding documents of at least three councillors as they cannot directly take part in any tender under the city corporations.
Tenders have been called two to three times in at least three to four cattle markets to get higher quotations and remove syndication, according to the sources.
In many cases bidders offered more than double to three times money than those of the previous years. Also, the number of participants in the tender processes were much higher this year. For instance, highest 23 bidders took part in the tender of East and Club ground at Dhupkhola, which was three to four in the previous years.
Bidders are now focusing on making profit
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and for that they are sending their representatives to the districts from where high volume of cattle comes to the capital, they informed.
"We are trying to woo the cattle traders in different local markets...," said Morshed Ahmed Chowdhury, joint convenor of East and Club, which won the bid of a cattle haat on the club ground.
He said they offered Tk 93 lakh this year to ensure that they win the bid and the second highest bid wasTk 76 lakh.
Abul Kalam Azad offered a price nine times higher than that of the previous year in the bidding of a cattle market at Donia College ground in Jatrabari under the DSCC not knowing how to get back his investment.
Last year this place along with three others was union parishads under Dhaka district, he said. As Donia came under the city corporation, he offered highest money in the open tender process as his elder brother used to run a cattle market there previously, he said.
Azad also echoed Morshed about participation of bidders and the tender process.
Both Morshed and Azad said they would get only five percent commission on each sale and are hoping to sell at least 7,000 and 12,000 cattle respectively to get back their investments.
Azad said the price of cattle might increase slightly this year due to a high price quotation in the biddings.
Those makeshift cattle markets which saw significant increase compared to the previous year include Balurmaath of Gopibagh which has been offered atTk 1.99cr. It was only Tk26.4 lakh last year.
Sadeque Hossain Khoka field in Dholaikhal received an offer ofTk 1.55cr which wasTk 58.05cr last year.
In DNCC, the open ground of Banarupa Residential Project in Khilkhet received Tk2.41 crofferwhich wasTk 1.51cr last year.
Contacted, DSCC Mayor Sayeed Khokon said there was no syndication in the tender process this year, thus they have received much higher offers.
He said some cattle markets including Donia College ground in Jatrabari has seen an increase in bidding quotation from 300 to 1,000 percent.
A senior official of DNCC also expressed similar views.