Letters To The Editor

The river's blessings
A few days ago, I came across a news report which states that the river Narsunda is called the lucky river of Kishoreganj, as the river bed soil is being used as fuel by the local people. Apart from using it for cooking, it is also being dried and sold as household fuel by the locals at Tk. 400 to 500 per maund. The opinion of the users of this fuel is that it burns better than firewood. 

According to the report, the local agriculture extension official feels that it can also be used as an organic fertiliser. If this is found to be so, then authorities should advise the BCSIR and BARI to jointly investigate the fuel and fertiliser potentials of this river bed soil so that we can know more about the potential values of this gift from nature.

Engr. S. A. Mansoor
Dhaka

“Truth or fiction?”
I have read the above titled letter of Nur Jahan published in The Daily Star on March 10, 2015. The writer commented on my letter which was published on February 25. She has written, “But sometimes truth is stranger than fiction; from where that person surfaced, why he filed a case etc”. It may be, but the judgment of the High Court cannot be strange. The High Court passes judgment on the basis of information, argument and evidence.

The person who filed the case against caretaker government system was a general citizen of Bangladesh, but a conscious citizen. The caretaker government was a strange system which was contrary to our constitution. The general election could not be held in a democratic country under an unelected government. A complexity arises in every general election surrounding selection of the chief adviser.

If we can make a strong and neutral election commission, then all problems will undoubtedly be solved.

Iqbal Hossain
Shankar, Dhaka