Labourers cry for job

A good number of day labourers are suffering from job crisis as the northern district sees much less activities in different sectors with the early arrival of biting winter.

Visiting Colony Bazar in Bogra town around 10:00am yesterday, this correspondent saw over a hundred people waiting there with spades, baskets, and other tools for daily-basis work.

The scene appeared as a stark contrast to the usual situation that prevailed only a couple of weeks ago, when almost all the labourers coming to the market would leave the spot by 8:00am to engage in works, offered mostly by solvent people in the town.

"Now I have to take loan to feed my five-member family as I often fail to get job as a day labourer," said Mozaffar Ali, 32, coming from Madla area under Shajahanpur upazila in the district.

Kamrul Hasan, a social service officer in Bogra town, said, "Hopefully, the jobless labourers will not face starvation as rice at Tk 10 a kg is being provided to the poor and helpless people under a government initiative."