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Tangail: Khandaker Manjurul Islam Tapan, the mayor of Tangail’s Dhanbari upazila, has put more than two hundred small businessmen on the road.
It is known that Badsha Mia, a fertilizer merchant in the Barnichan area, gave the money to the mayor in the hope of getting a shop.
He didn’t get any money back from the store, even after two long years of giving money. At one point he died of a heart attack.
Not just Badsha Mia, Mayor Khandaker Manjurul Islam Tapan has snatched two lakh rupees in the name of giving away shops to more than one hundred and a half of these merchants.
Local traders complained when they went to the Dhanbari Township Kitchen Market on Thursday afternoon.
Construction of the ‘Municipal Kitchen Market’, a one-story building with a three-story foundation in the Dhanbari Municipality of Tangail at a cost of Taka 4.75 crore, started on July 2, 2016 with the laying of the foundation stone. . Before the market was built, Mayor Khandaker Manjurul Islam Tapan took Rs 2 lakh in cash from each of the small merchants who promised to set up a shop. Market construction work was completed on July 20, 2016 ahead of schedule. Three years have passed since the construction work was completed, but even today the merchants’ shops have not been assigned.
According to the decision of the Municipal Kitchen Market Store Allocation Committee meeting according to the rules, tenders must be invited in the manner prescribed by citizens and actual merchants under the Municipal Public Standards Act 2003 for the award on the basis of the fixed rent of the store. But without publishing the shop allotment notice, the municipal mayor, showing the temptation to allot shops, snatched two lakhs of rupees from three times as many traders (per person) than the specified number of (92) shops.
Meanwhile, defenseless small traders have been forced to trade in the raw and fish market occupying the front of the market, on the side of the road and on the pavement for three years without assigning stores.
On the other hand, the market for kitchens built at a cost of millions of rupees has not been opened for three long years and due to the negligence of the municipal authorities, all the windows in the market have been broken and cracks have appeared in the building. . In addition, the main door of the market is also being damaged due to rust.
Shafiqul Islam from the Chhatrapur area. I used to do business in front of Kitchen Market three years ago. This small merchant borrowed two lakh rupees at interest and handed it over to the mayor in the hope of getting a shop. But since the shop wasn’t even assigned with the money, he now works as a bricklayer to pay back the borrowed money.
Shafiqul Islam Kalu Fakir, a businessman, said he gave two lakh rupees to Mayor Khandaker Manjurul Islam Tapan three years ago in the hope of getting a shop. But so far he has not received a refund. For this reason, you are forced to buy on the sidewalk outside the market.
Same complaint. Sakhawat Hossain. He is also forced to shop on the sidewalk in front of the market, as he has not been assigned a shop with money. He said that he is now extremely frustrated with the money borrowed from the mayor. Maybe it could have run a little better if I had found the store.
Another businessman, Abdur Rahim, said he paid the mayor two lakh rupees four years ago in the hope of getting a shop on the market. But so far they haven’t given him the store. When he told the mayor this, he hesitated.
The Mayor of Dhanbari Municipality, Khandaker Manjurul Islam Tapan, told banglanews that the market was built with World Bank funds. Under the rules, the World Bank must pay 20 percent. What has not been done so far. Once the money is paid, the market will be opened and the stores will be distributed among the merchants.
Bangladesh time: 0950 hours, December 20, 2020
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