Kaptan Bazar Market 

Staff Correspondent

Hawkers on Saturday demanded immediate allocation of 642 shops at Kaptan Bazar Market among them as per the agreement between the Dhaka City Corporation and them.

The hawkers, under the banner of Hossain Shaheed Suhrawardy Hawkers Market Association, at a press conference at the Dhaka Reporters Unity also alleged that the corporation authorities had been making unnecessary delay in allotting the shops among them violating the agreement signed in 1999.

The association president, Gofran Sardar, said they had filed a case against the corporation for non-allocation of the shops and withdrawn it following the agreement with DCC.

'As they [DCC] were not allocating the shops even after seven years of signing of the agreement, we again filed a case with the district and sessions judge court in 2006.

The case is under trial,' he said. A vested interested group with the connivance of a recently retired deputy chief revenue officer of bazaar circle and others at the DCC's revenue department kept the market under its control during the past government's regime, the president said.

There are 710 shops in the market and most of them are under lock and key, he said and urged the government to take immediate steps to handover the shops among the hawkers.

M Mamunur Rashid, general secretary in-charge of the association, said they had also lodged a written complaint with the special Task Force in DCC in this regard. Among others, the association's vice president Amir Hossain and National Sramik Federation president Abul Basar were present at the conference.

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