Action will be taken if a vehicle heading to a designated market for sacrificial animals is stopped on the way, Home Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has said. He was speaking to journalists on Monday (19 May) afternoon after a law and order meeting on Eid ul Adha in the Ministry of Home Affairs conference room at the Secretariat.

The adviser said discipline is usually lacking at the sacrificial cattle markets during Eid ul Adha. It has therefore been decided that vehicles bringing sacrificial animals from different parts of the country must display the name of their specific market at the front. Cattle may not be unloaded just anywhere or on the road, only at the designated place.

Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said every market must have Ansar members for security, 75 at some markets and more or fewer at others.

Alongside security, he said, every market must have veterinarians so that no sick animal is sold. People are sometimes injured by cattle, so first aid must also be available. Although a toll of Tk 5 per hundred is being charged this year, from next year it must be charged at Tk 4 per hundred.

He said bulkheads would be halted from five days before Eid until three days after Eid, and may not run at night under any circumstances.

No bus, train or vessel may carry extra passengers ahead of Eid, the adviser said, and the same rule will apply to transporting animals.

"People will always have demands," he said. "We call on all ministries to accept reasonable demands, but care must be taken that no one makes unreasonable ones. Everyone should press their demands within their own complexes and not cause suffering to ordinary people by blocking roads."

Khoda Baksh Chowdhury, the chief adviser's special assistant on home affairs, and RAB director general AKM Shahidur Rahman were among the officials present at the briefing.

Source: Jagonews24. First published in Bengali on The Agro News.