Chief Advisor Professor Muhammad Yunus. File Photo

DHAKA, May 4, 2025 (BSS) - Chief Advisor Professor Muhammad Yunus today asked for constituting a high-level committee for overall management of everything during the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha.

The committee will look into the matter of ensuring fair price of rawhides of sacrificial animal, proper animal transportation, waste management and other related issues, he said.

Prof Yunus gave the directives at a meeting held at the State Guest House Jamuna here, CA’s Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder told BSS.
 
Industries Adviser Adilur Rahman Khan, Road Transport and Bridges Adviser Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan, Environment, Forests and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan and Information Adviser Mahfuj Alam attended the meeting.

The Chief Adviser said for a long time, it has been seen that people are being deprived of getting fair price of rawhides of sacrificial animal.
 
As a result, he said, the poor people of the society, who are largely dependent on the money from the sale of the rawhides, suffer the most. This mismanagement needs to end, he said.

Mentioning that there is a syndicate controlling the price of rawhides of animals, the Chief Adviser said the interim government will try its best so that people are not deprived of getting fair price of the rawhides of sacrificial animals due to any syndicate or mismanagement.

Prof Yunus instructed all to give special importance to ensuring that no cruelty is shown to the sacrificial animals during their transportation and sale in cattle market.

He also put emphasis on ensuring proper use of effluent treatment plant (ETP) in processing the rawhides.
 
The Chief Adviser ordered formation of a high-level committee under the leadership of Commerce Adviser Sk Bashir Uddin to implement the directives.
 
The committee will include Fisheries and Livestock Adviser Farida Akhter, Industries Adviser Adilur Rahman Khan, Road Transport and Bridges Adviser Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan, Environment, Forest and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Information Adviser Mahfuj Alam, Local Government Rural Development & Cooperatives Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain, Home Adviser Lt. Gen. (retd) Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser on the Ministry of Home Affairs Khuda Baksh Chowdhury, Executive Chairman of the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) and Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) Chowdhury Ashik Mahmud Bin Harun, Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam, Industries Secretary Md Obaidur Rahman, and representatives from religious institutions and leather industry as members.