FBCCI hands over Tk 1 crore donation to Bangabazar fire victims

Business Desk :
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) has handed over a Tk 1 crore cheque that it promised to give to the traders who got affected by the recent fire incident at Bangabazar clothing market in Dhaka.

FBCCI President Md Jashim Uddin handed over the cheque to the leaders of the Bangabazar Complex Dokan Malik Samity on Saturday at the FBCCI office in the capital.
A massive fire ripped through the capital’s Bangabazar Shopping Complex on April 4 this year, burning down 2,931 shops full of clothes and ruining the livelihood of several thousand traders just weeks before Eid-ul-Fitr.

At the event, Jashim Uddin urged the business leaders and market committees to be aware of the risky markets and to do necessary reforms.
FBCCI Senior Vice President Mostofa Azad Chowdhury Babu said the fire service unit has marked the Bangabazar market as risky and warned several times about its dilapidated condition, but the market committee did not pay heed to the matter.
He urged everyone to be more responsible instead of blaming the government for such accidents.