Bidi workers want withdrawal of tax in Khulna

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Bidi workers want withdrawal of tax in Khulna

Peoples Time Desk

Published : Wednesday, 2 March, 2022 at 7:38 PM, Count : 1346

Bidi workers want withdrawal of tax in Khulna

The Khulna District Bidi Sramik Sangram Parishad on Wednesday formed a human chain demanding withdrawal of ten percent advance income tax imposed on bidis.

Thousands of bidi worker formed the human chain in front of Khulna Chamber of Commerce around 11:00am demanding to press home their five-points charter of demand.

Their five-point demands are- taking steps not to issue license on the bidi factory, stopping fake bidi companies, launching a law to protect the workers and owners engaged in the bidi industry.

Addressing the human chain, the speakers said that the livelihood of the helpless, extremely poor, physically handicapped, widows and many other families of the society depends on the bidi industry.

The country's founding president Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared bidi industry from duty free considering the common people and helpless workers of this country.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in her budget speech for the fiscal year 2009-2010, directed to reduce the duty on bidis and increase the duty on cigarettes. But the British American Tobacco Company used some of the country's most corrupt bureaucrats to impose exorbitant taxes on bidis, they claimed.

Following the matter, bidi owners were being forced to close their factories as they could not bear the tax burden.

They strongly condemned and protested against this conspiracy. The workers, at the same time, demanded the introduction of social security schemes for the welfare of bidi owners and workers in neighboring countries like India, they added.

Bidi workers leaders Abdur Rahman, Nazim Uddin, Harik Hossain, Abdul Gafur, Anowar Hossain, Abdus Salam Munsi and others spoke on the occasion.

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