RAJSHAHI, Aug 17, 2018 (BSS)- Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) will
ensure full-proof security to all the cattle and other Eid-markets in the
metropolis.
RMP authority made this assurance while addressing a law and order related
view-sharing meeting with lease-holders of cattle markers and other business
and chamber leaders at its conference hall in the city yesterday afternoon.
Chaired by RMP Commissioner Hafiz Akter, the meeting was addressed, among
others, by Additional Commissioner Sujayet Islam, Deputy Commissioners Amir
Jafar, Hemayetul Islam, Joynul Abedeen, Anirban Chakma, Saifuddin Shaheen,
Abu Ahmed Al Mamun, Saiful Islam, Sazid Hossain and Alamgir Hossain,
President of Rajshahi Chamber of Commerce and Industry Muniruzzaman Moni and
business leaders Atiqur Rahman and Sekendar Ali.
RMP Commissioner urged the lease-holders to set up closed-circuit camera
in all important points of cattle-markets to detect and identify the
criminals if there any.
Meanwhile, the sale of sacrificial animals is gearing up in all the cattle
markers including the Rajshahi City Haat as Eid-ul-Azha is knocking the door.
There was also a huge turnout of sacrificial cattlehead including cow, bull,
buffalo, goat and lamb.
Mohammd Dublu, lease of Rajshahi City Haat, the largest cattle market in the
district, said there was sufficient supply of locally-reared cattlehead at
the haat.
The cattleheads which were being watched as Indian were actually reared
and domesticated by the farmers of our villages.
They purchased the calves six to seven months ago and reared those at their
sheds and fattened those. As a result, those looked like Indian cattlehead.
Meanwhile, cattle traders who came to sell their cattle heads at the haat
informed, there was only a small number of local customers of sacrificial
animals rather the haat was full of whole sale cattle traders from Dhaka and
Chittagong.
The local customers for sacrificial animal would throng the haat just
three to four days before the Eid, they said.
However, the workers at the haat informed, with the approaching of the Eid,
the number of locally breed and reared cattle heads will be increased.
Sagar, a cattle trader, he expressed the hope that with the approaching of
the Eid, the number of customers will also increase.
He said he was charging each cow Tk 160,000 but the customers were not
even making a bargain.
Aslam, a farmer came to the haat with a pair of locally bred bull. He said
there was only a small number of locally bred cattle heads at the haat.