Trees inside shut-down silk mills being sold at low price
Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Our Correspondent
RAJSHAHI, Oct 8: Taking the opportunity of closure of state-owned Rajshahi Silk Mills, a section of employees and workers of the mills are plundering large trees from inside the mill compound and selling those at a throw-away price, sources said.
According to the sources, after the closure of the mill, most of the assets and machinery of the mill have been kept under locks, but several hundred trees on the mill premises remained uncared for.
Recently, the mills authorities formed a four-member committee to sell the trees. The committee recently sold five large, fruit-bearing trees at a cost of only Tk 2,700, but the same trees would be sold at over Tk 15,000.
Sources alleged that the committee members with the help of dishonest traders are selling the trees at a low price secretly.
The concerned officials told this correspondent that for building a mosque the trees were cut down. But they could not give any logical answer to why the government policy has not been followed and the trees were sold at such a low price.
RAJSHAHI, Oct 8: Taking the opportunity of closure of state-owned Rajshahi Silk Mills, a section of employees and workers of the mills are plundering large trees from inside the mill compound and selling those at a throw-away price, sources said.
According to the sources, after the closure of the mill, most of the assets and machinery of the mill have been kept under locks, but several hundred trees on the mill premises remained uncared for.
Recently, the mills authorities formed a four-member committee to sell the trees. The committee recently sold five large, fruit-bearing trees at a cost of only Tk 2,700, but the same trees would be sold at over Tk 15,000.
Sources alleged that the committee members with the help of dishonest traders are selling the trees at a low price secretly.
The concerned officials told this correspondent that for building a mosque the trees were cut down. But they could not give any logical answer to why the government policy has not been followed and the trees were sold at such a low price.