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Poor tenants scream for relief in N’ganj


Published : 20 Apr 2020 07:47 PM | Updated : 06 Sep 2020 08:37 PM

A huge number of day labourers who live in Narayanganj have became jobless, on top of that the owners of houses pressurize the tenants to pay the monthly house rents. As a result, the jobless poor people are facing crisis to pay house rent and to buy food. So, they are screaming for relief materials to live on. 

The government allocated relief goods and directed to distribute them among all destitute people. But the local managements especially chairmen and members of the municipality do not allow the poor people who are tenants or are not voters in their jurisdiction. 

It’s a common scenario of the district that people came from all districts across the country to work in different sectors including readymade garments factories, hosiery and driving rickshaw as well as others. 

These categories of z people live in a room or slum due to their low income but they are now stranded in Narayanganj as transportation had already been suspended. 

If the outsider poor people could have left the district and could reach their native district, they would not need to extend hands to the chairmen and members or concerned authorities for relief goods to live on.

The conscious people insisting more and more on distributing  the relief goods without discriminating as to  who are inhabitants of Narayanganj and who are outsiders, but municipalities apex didn’t  pay heed to it  yet. As a result, the jobless poor people have been passing days with tears and starvation simultaneously.

According to the health department of the district, out of 301 corona infected patients, 9 were cured and 24 died so far.

It is mentionable that the first corona virus infection was found among three people of whom two were of Narayangan. On the other hand the first corona virus death case was a woman in Narayanganj too. Now, the poor people neither get relief goods nor can leave the district in the existing circumstances of the country.