Drive against English signboards starts
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has started a drive against signboards and nameplates in English instead of Bangla in the capital. As part of the drive, DNCC mobile courts yesterday fined 25 establishments Tk 1.67 lakh in Gulshan and Rampura areas.
Five executive magistrates of DNCC -- Tazwar Akram Sakapi Ibne Sazzad, Abdullah Al Baki, Md Abdul Hamid Miah, Rifat Ferdous and Parshia Sultana -- conducted the drives from 11am to 2:30pm.
Magistrate Baki, who led the drive at Kemal Ataturk Avenue fined 10 organisations Tk 55,000. The mobile court also realised Tk 3,000 each from three banks. The court asked the building and establishment owners to re-write their signboards and nameplates in Bangla within the next seven days.
The court also fined a flower shop Tk 10,000.
In another drive, executive magistrate Hamid fined three businesses Tk 9,000 in total at Kemal Ataturk Avenue.
Another Mobile court led by Tazwar fined five institutions Tk 48,000 and removed their signboards in Rampura.
The mobile court led by Rifat Ferdous fined two businesses Tk 15,000 in Rampura. Another mobile court led by Parshia Sultana fined five organisations Tk 45,000 in the same area.
ASM Mamun, public relations officer of DNCC, said they conducted this kind of drive earlier as per instruction of the High Court.
He said the HC made the use of Bangla compulsory in every signboard, billboard, nameplate and banner except at embassies and foreign agencies years ago. The local government division at that time had given instruction to DNCC to follow the order, he said. DNCC issued public advertisements in this regard many times and also conducted drives, Mamun added.
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