Two filling stations have been fined for providing trucks carrying food items from outside the district with parking facilities as well as the drivers and helpers with accommodation in Thakurgaon on Monday.
Thakurgaon Sadar Upazila Nirbahi Officer Abdullah Al-Mamun fined those two petrol pumps named Sonali Filling Station and Enamul Filling Station in the district town.
Various trucks carrying food materials and daily necessities coming from outside the district instead of returning parked their vehicles at those filing stations and the drivers or helpers of those trucks got the opportunity to roam around the town. For this reason those two filing stations were fined Tk 5,000 each.
Meanwhile, Mamun, the owner of a garage located in front of the Thakurgaon Technical Training Center in Goalpara area of the town was also fined Tk 2,000 at the time for not spraying disinfectants on pickup trucks and trucks coming from different districts with goods.
Besides, a microbus driver was fined Tk 5,000 for taking out his microbus on Thakurgaon-Gareya road after 6 pm defying govt directive. Such operation will continue in the public interest, informed Abdullah Al-Mamun, Thakurgaon Sadar Upazila Nirbahi Officer.
It is to be mentioned that on Sunday morning two more filing stations named Zafar Filing Station and Alhaj Mansur Ali Filing Station were fined Tk 5,000 each by the UNO for the same reason.
