Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government would continue to take stern actions against those involved in food adulteration.
The prime minister said this in response to a question from Enamul Haque, a Rajshahi-4 constituency lawmaker, during a question-answer session at the Jatiya Sangsad.
Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury chaired the session. Referring to her government’s initiatives taken on different occasions over the last five years, leader of the House Sheikh Hasina said the consumers had already started to benefit from the drives that the government had launched against food adulteration.
“The government has taken various steps against food adulteration to protect public health,” she said.
The premier said the government had imposed fines of more than Tk8 croe on 8796 business institutions for selling adulterated products and medicines and more than Tk24 lakh on 186 traders for mixing formalin with food.
Responding to a question from Advocate Fazilatun Nessa Bappi about the Padma Bridge, the premier said it was now a matter of time.
“Now the Padma Bridge is not a vision, it is a matter of time,” she said hoping that it would be open to public by 2018.
