Meat traders agree to call off proposed strike during Ramadan

Meat traders have backed off from a threat to stop selling meat from the beginning of Ramadan after a meeting with the Ministry of Commerce.

Staff Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 30 April 2017, 08:21 AM
Updated : 30 April 2017, 08:29 AM

Bangladesh Meat Traders Association Secretary General Rabiul Alam had threatened the strike at the Dhaka Reporters Unity in Shegun Bagicha on Sunday.

If these problems are not solved within the next 15 days, the traders will call a strike from the first of Ramadan, he had said.

The meat traders association had previously called a strike on Feb 13, which was lifted on Feb 18 after they reached a compromise with the Ministry of Commerce and the City Corporation.

But little has changed in the months since, claimed Rabiul earlier in the day. The price of meat could be controlled if the practice of bribery was put to an end , he said.

The problem could be reduced by as much as 50 percent if the City Corporation took the necessary steps and the Dhaka South City Corporation set up a permanent market for livestock, he added.

“But none of these steps have been taken,” he said.