Special security measures taken for Eid: Home minister

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday called upon the factory owners as well as BGMEA, BKMEA and FBCCI leaders to give their workers Eid leave in phases from August 28 to avoid traffic jams on highways, reports BSS.

“We have discussed salary-allowances of RMG (readymade garment) workers with owners and business leaders and urged the owners to pay wages and allowances so that the RMG workers could celebrate the Eid,” he told newsmen after a meeting on law and order ahead of the Eid in his ministry's conference room here.

The meeting was attended by Inspector General (IGP) of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque, Secretary of Security Division of the ministry Dr Kamal Uddin Ahmed, Director General of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Major General Abul Hossain, Director General of Bangladesh Coast Guard Rear Admiral Aurangzeb Chowdhury, Director General of Bangladesh Ansar and VDP Major General Sheikh Pasha Habib Uddin, additional IGP Dr Javed Patwari, Director General of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Benzir Ahmed, Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Asaduzzaman Miah, and other ministry officials. The minister said the government has taken special security measures across the country for smooth and peaceful celebration of the Eid-ul-Azha.

He said necessary watch towers, CCTV cameras and check posts would be set up at various places to check extortion, mugging and smuggling of leathers.

Khan said highway police, naval police, coast guard, RAB and Ansar will increase their patrolling during the Eid to stop all sorts of criminal activities. He said law enforcement agencies will not allow any cattle market and haat-bazar adjacent to the highways as 130 cattle markets and 226 small markets (haat-bazar) are located along the highways.

Special security measures taken for Eid: Home minister

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday called upon the factory owners as well as BGMEA, BKMEA and FBCCI leaders to give their workers Eid leave in phases from August 28 to avoid traffic jams on highways, reports BSS. We have discussed salary-allowances of RMG (readymade garment) workers with owners and business leaders and urged the owners to pay wages and allowances so that the RMG workers could celebrate the Eid, he told newsmen after a meeting on law and order ahead of the Eid in his ministrys conference room here. The meeting was attended by Inspector General (IGP) of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque, Secretary of Security Division of the ministry Dr Kamal Uddin Ahmed, Director General of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Major General Abul Hossain, Director General of Bangladesh Coast Guard Rear Admiral Aurangzeb Chowdhury, Director General of Bangladesh Ansar and VDP Major General Sheikh Pasha Habib Uddin, additional IGP Dr Javed Patwari, Director General of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Benzir Ahmed, Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Asaduzzaman Miah, and other ministry officials. The minister said the government has taken special security measures across the country for smooth and peaceful celebration of the Eid-ul-Azha. He said necessary watch towers, CCTV cameras and check posts would be set up at various places to check extortion, mugging and smuggling of leathers. Khan said highway police, naval police, coast guard, RAB and Ansar will increase their patrolling during the Eid to stop all sorts of criminal activities. He said law enforcement agencies will not allow any cattle market and haat-bazar adjacent to the highways as 130 cattle markets and 226 small markets (haat-bazar) are located along the highways.