Illegal cattle markets deprive DCC of Tk 200m revenue
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Yasir Wardad
A number of illegal cattle markets have been set up in different areas across the city ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha, depriving the DCC of around Tk 200 million in revenue, officials said Wednesday.
The unhygienic markets are also creating problems for the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) to keep the city clean, they said.
Besides the 12 DCC-approved cattle markets, more than a dozen of makeshift cattle markets have been set up across the capital without any approval of the DCC, said a high official of the organisation.
He said the DCC could earn around Tk 200 million, if the organisers of those 'hats' (cattle markets) took approval from the DCC by paying due charges.
"We are helpless, because leaders of the youth and student wings of the ruling party are involved with the hats. The local MPs are also patronising them indirectly," he said.
Last year the DCC earned Tk 30.77 million from the approved hats, and this year it has already earned Tk 46.10 million from 10 hats. Besides, formalities for re-tendering the rest two hats were finalised Wednesday.
Arrangements for setting up illegal cattle markets without the DCC approval were seen at various places, like - Shahajadpur Bashtala adjacent to North Badda, Mirpur section-1 children park, Madhubag area beside Begunbari Canal, Railway Colony playground at Shajahanpur, open space of National Housing Authority adjacent to Mohammadpur Krishi Market and Adabor thana, beside the dam at Basila, under the Postagola Bridge etc.
Waste Management Office of the DCC expressed their deep concern over the matter, saying that their plans to keep the city clean during the Eid might be ineffective due to those unplanned cattle markets.
"We have taken different measures to keep the capital clean during the Eid festival, but now it might not be possible," said DCC chief waste management officer Captain Bipan Kumar Saha Wednesday.
The DCC does not have extra capacity or manpower to be engaged for additional waste management, he added.
Although the DCC mayor and the DMP commissioner vowed to take stern actions against organisers of illegal cattle markets and extortionists, no action has been taken regarding the matter.
A number of illegal cattle markets have been set up in different areas across the city ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha, depriving the DCC of around Tk 200 million in revenue, officials said Wednesday.
The unhygienic markets are also creating problems for the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) to keep the city clean, they said.
Besides the 12 DCC-approved cattle markets, more than a dozen of makeshift cattle markets have been set up across the capital without any approval of the DCC, said a high official of the organisation.
He said the DCC could earn around Tk 200 million, if the organisers of those 'hats' (cattle markets) took approval from the DCC by paying due charges.
"We are helpless, because leaders of the youth and student wings of the ruling party are involved with the hats. The local MPs are also patronising them indirectly," he said.
Last year the DCC earned Tk 30.77 million from the approved hats, and this year it has already earned Tk 46.10 million from 10 hats. Besides, formalities for re-tendering the rest two hats were finalised Wednesday.
Arrangements for setting up illegal cattle markets without the DCC approval were seen at various places, like - Shahajadpur Bashtala adjacent to North Badda, Mirpur section-1 children park, Madhubag area beside Begunbari Canal, Railway Colony playground at Shajahanpur, open space of National Housing Authority adjacent to Mohammadpur Krishi Market and Adabor thana, beside the dam at Basila, under the Postagola Bridge etc.
Waste Management Office of the DCC expressed their deep concern over the matter, saying that their plans to keep the city clean during the Eid might be ineffective due to those unplanned cattle markets.
"We have taken different measures to keep the capital clean during the Eid festival, but now it might not be possible," said DCC chief waste management officer Captain Bipan Kumar Saha Wednesday.
The DCC does not have extra capacity or manpower to be engaged for additional waste management, he added.
Although the DCC mayor and the DMP commissioner vowed to take stern actions against organisers of illegal cattle markets and extortionists, no action has been taken regarding the matter.