Rootless Ganna Bazar post office moves from one place to another

JHENIDAH, Dec 23: Official activities of Ganna Bazar post office under Jhenidah Sadar is conducted at the verandas of different shops in absence of a departmental building here.

The postmaster and runner faces awkward situations as the century-old post office moves from one place to another with the postmaster carrying official papers in one hand and the bag of postal tickets in the other. They have no room of their own to keep official khatas and documents.

Besides, the official seals of the post office have become almost unreadable as they have been used for ages.

The postmaster Mizanur Rahman doing the job for 18 years, said, he has been conducting work on a mat at different spaces in the bazar after the tin-shed office arranged by local people emerged unusable long ago.

Ganna is a big bazaar is a big one situated on the frontier of Kotchandpur, Kaliganj and Jhenidah Sadar upazila near the bank of the Chitra River.

There are a college, a secondary and a primary school and a bank in the bazar. Around thousand business establishments are also lying here.

Md Moyeen Uddin, a resident of the village and president of Ganna Secondary School said, once 'Zamindars' under Naldanga kings of Kaliganj would live here in Ganna village. One Zamindar Abhilas Babu established the post office on the compound of his own house around 1925.

When the 'Zamindars' left the country, his grandfather took some of their properties in exchange. The post office was at their house situated at one corner of Ganna village near Jhenidah Sadar and Kaliganj upazila frontier.

However, for easy communication to the post office, the local people shifted the post office to Ganna Bazar about 40-45 years ago.

The official work was run by run at a tin-shed room there. But it turned completely unusable long ago as everything making the room was destroyed with the passage of time, Moyeen added.

Union council member Joynal Abedin of Ganna village told this correspondent that establishing a post office building is urgent as the post office is virtually moving with the postmaster carrying khatas and other official things regularly.

Towards the beginning one Abul Karim Ali conducted the work of the postmaster. Later Mizanur's father Hatem Ali did the work for nearly 45 years.

After his father's death Mizanur took the responsibility and has been conducting the work for 18 years.

According to postmaster Mizanur, a modern two-room post office building with a toilet can be made by the government if required land is donated by local people or any department.

But local respected citizens have to apply to the UNO for establishment of a post office building here.

Then UNO will consult with the local men including public representatives about where a building can be established.

When this correspondent talked to the local people they said that Ganna Secondary School that is located on seven bighas of land can be a site for establishing a post office building in its area.

Ganna union chairman Md Nasir Uddin Malita told the FE that he along with others would do what they have to in this regard.

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