'Gazette on quota to be published maintaining formalities'

Secretariat Correspondent: Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said, "Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the national parliament has announced to abolish the quota system in the government jobs. There is no doubt in it. She won't disappoint students. A gazette notification on abolishing the quota system will be published after maintaining some formalities. Till then, students will have to wait with patience."

The minister said this while replying to a query from journalists at his secretariat office on Monday.

Earlier, the commerce minister inaugurated the second tea auction centre at Sreemangal upazila in Moulvibazar through video conference from his secretariat office.

Inaugurating the tea auction centre in Sreemangal, Tofail Ahmed said the second auction centre after Chottagram would help minimize the cost of tea producers.

"Producers faced difficulties to auction off their tea in the lone centre in Chottagram and the new centre would minimize the problem," he added.

Tofail said the government took the initiative of opening the new centre following the demand from tea producers and implemented the commitment of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Mentioning that tea is being produced on 64,886 hectares of land, he said with the initiative of the government, now tea cultivation has been expanded in Panchagar, Takhurgaon, Lalmonirhat and Dinajpur districts.

Bangladesh Tea Board Chairman Major General Md Jahangir Al Mustahidur Rahman, Tea Producer and Businessmen Association Convener Dr A Momen, Moulvibazar Zila Parishad Chairman M Azizur Rahman and Deputy Commissioner M Tofayel Islam, among others, were present at the auction centre.


risingbd/Dhaka/May 14, 2018/Asad/AI