Staff Reporter:
Home Adviser Lieutenant General Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (Retd.) yesterday asked all concerned to ensure proper security at all the cattle markets across the country.
“A total of 20 cattle markets will be set up in the two city corporations in Dhaka. Necessary security measures will be taken in the cattle markets with deployment of appropriate numbers of Ansar,” he said.
He was speaking to journalists after coming out of a meeting on ‘Better management of the cattle mar-kets and rawhide selling’ at his ministry office in the Bangladesh Secretariat here.
The Home Adviser also stressed the need for taking measures for safeguarding the capital as large num-ber city dwellers will leave the city ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha, making the city deserted.
He asked the law enforcers and administrators of the city corporations to take appropriate measures in ensuring foolproof security in the capital.
Jahangir also asked the city dwellers to take some precautionary measures before leaving for their ances-tral home that include – switching off their electricity and gas connections and locking all the doors and windows properly.
The adviser has also asked all concerned to take appropriate measures to ensure better waste management in the cattle markets.
He said every cattle market would have to ensure a place for unloading sacrificial animals — as no ani-mal can be unloaded on the roads — to give the city dwellers a sigh of relief from the nagging traffic snarl.
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Administrator Mohammad Azaz, who attended the meeting, said that the two city corporations have given approval of setting up 20 cattle markets in the capital.
“Ansar personnel will be deployed alongside bringing all the cattle markets under CCTV coverage and constant surveillance and monitoring for ensuring security at the cattle markets,” he said.
Separate mobile teams from the Livestock Ministry will be deployed at the cattle markets to check sell-ing sick cattle in the markets alongside ensuring security, he said.
For ensuring better traffic management, he said that the city corporations have given permission to set up the cattle markets in places that are well away from the highways.
The administrator said no cattle markets will be allowed to be set up on the highways.
Every cattle market has been asked to select a place for unloading cattle as the government has instructed to stop offloading animals on the roads for ensuring better traffic management, he said.
