B'baria people demand re-opening of Handloom Board Facilities Centre
Sunday, 26 August 2007
Our Correspondent
BRAHMANBARIA, August 25: Local people of the district urged the concerned authorities to re-open the Bancharampur Handloom Board Facilities Centre, a subsidiary of Bangladesh Handloom Board.
The government established the centre in the 1980's on 262 decimal land with a view to supplying adequate yarn, colours, shuttle etc to the local weavers.
It is situated at the East side of the bank of the river Titas near the Bancharampur upazila headquarter. It has twelve dormitories, six residential quarters, office building, store building, boiler house and factory house.
However, the centre had failed to provide proper services to the weavers. Eventually, it was closed in 1990's due to insufficient spare parts, erratic power supply, abnormal price hike of raw materials, high production cost and low selling price of the products as well as corruption and irregularities by the authorities, said local sources.
As a result, hundreds of the workers of the centre became jobless. Finding no other way they engaged themselves in other vocations to earn their livelihood.
Local sources also said, most of the machinery of the centre have gradually been stolen. Remaining ones, unused for so long, have become almost scrap.
It was also learnt that, the government has decided to sell the centre.
In this situation, the local people strongly demanded to reopen it soon for the country's interest.
BRAHMANBARIA, August 25: Local people of the district urged the concerned authorities to re-open the Bancharampur Handloom Board Facilities Centre, a subsidiary of Bangladesh Handloom Board.
The government established the centre in the 1980's on 262 decimal land with a view to supplying adequate yarn, colours, shuttle etc to the local weavers.
It is situated at the East side of the bank of the river Titas near the Bancharampur upazila headquarter. It has twelve dormitories, six residential quarters, office building, store building, boiler house and factory house.
However, the centre had failed to provide proper services to the weavers. Eventually, it was closed in 1990's due to insufficient spare parts, erratic power supply, abnormal price hike of raw materials, high production cost and low selling price of the products as well as corruption and irregularities by the authorities, said local sources.
As a result, hundreds of the workers of the centre became jobless. Finding no other way they engaged themselves in other vocations to earn their livelihood.
Local sources also said, most of the machinery of the centre have gradually been stolen. Remaining ones, unused for so long, have become almost scrap.
It was also learnt that, the government has decided to sell the centre.
In this situation, the local people strongly demanded to reopen it soon for the country's interest.