{"id":4533,"date":"2024-01-18T20:51:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T17:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2024-01-18T20:51:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T17:21:24","slug":"khalid-mahmud-reiterates-taking-steps-to-stop-passengers-harassment-at-sadarghat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=4533","title":{"rendered":"Khalid Mahmud reiterates taking steps to stop passengers harassment at Sadarghat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ET Desk:<\/strong> State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury today reiterated his ministry\u2019s strong action against passengers\u2019 harassment in Sadarghat launch terminal area here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we are saying, Sadarghat will remain primp . . . Passengers harassment must be stopped,&#8221; he told the leaders of Shipping Reporters Forum, Bangladesh (SRFB) while they paid a courtesy call on the new state minister at the Bangladesh Secretariat here today.<\/p>\n<p>The state minister added: \u201cWhen I visited Sadarghat, I gave away all the shops. But I have been receiving information for the last few days that the harassment of passengers has started again at a worse level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He must visit Sadarghat, the state minister said, without informing anybody. A certain quarter has started doing this taking advantage of recent political conflicts, Khalid mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>Khalid Mahmud categorically said, \u201cThe authorities concerned will take strong action . . . Sadarghat must be freed from all sorts of harassments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Referring to different development activities undertaken by the government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, he said various projects were taken to develop the coastal areas &#8211;Sandwip and Kutubdia \u2013 which remain separated from main land while the government is especially thinking about Kutubdia.<\/p>\n<p>About the development of waterways around Dhaka, Khalid said, the Prime Minister is very serious about the beautification of the river banks around Dhaka and its surroundings as well.<\/p>\n<p>Emphasizing the importance of river protection awareness, he said, \u201cThere are committees in every district and upazila. The river protection committee has been instructed to form committees in all districts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SRFB President Kazi Emad Uddin Jebel and General Secretary Afrin Jahan, among others, were present there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ET Desk: State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury today reiterated his ministry\u2019s strong action against passengers\u2019 harassment in Sadarghat launch terminal area here. &#8220;What we are saying, Sadarghat will remain primp . . . Passengers harassment must be stopped,&#8221; he told the leaders of Shipping Reporters Forum, Bangladesh (SRFB) while they paid a courtesy call on the new state minister at the Bangladesh Secretariat here today. The state minister added: \u201cWhen I visited Sadarghat, I gave away all the shops. But I have been receiving information for the last<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4535,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions\/4535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}