Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) will ensure full-proof security to all the cattle and other Eid-markets in the metropolis.
RMP authority made this assurance while addressing a law and order related view-sharing meeting with lease-holders of cattle markers and other business and chamber leaders at its conference hall in the city Thursday afternoon.
RMP Commissioner Hafiz Akter urged the lease-holders to set up closed-circuit camera in all important points of cattle-markets to detect and identify the criminals if there any.
Meanwhile, the sale of sacrificial animals is gearing up in all the cattle markers including the Rajshahi City Haat as Eid-ul-Azha is knocking the door.
There was also a huge turnout of sacrificial cattlehead including cow, bull, buffalo, goat and lamb.
Mohammd Dublu, lease of Rajshahi City Haat, the largest cattle market in the district, said there was sufficient supply of locally-reared cattlehead at the haat.
The cattleheads which were being looked like as Indian were actually reared and domesticated by the farmers of our villages.
They purchased the calves six to seven months ago and reared those at their sheds and fattened those. As a result, those looked like Indian cattlehead.
Meanwhile, cattle traders who came to sell their cattle heads at the haat informed, there was only a small number of local customers of sacrificial animals rather the haat was full of whole sale cattle traders from Dhaka and Chittagong.
The local customers for sacrificial animal would throng the haat just three to four days before the Eid, they said.
However, the workers at the haat informed, with the approaching of the Eid, the number of locally breed and reared cattle heads will be increased.
Sagar, a cattle trader, he expressed the hope that with the approaching of the Eid, the number of customers will also increase.
He said he was charging each cow Tk 160,000 but the customers were not even making a bargain.
Aslam, a farmer came to the haat with a pair of locally bred bull. He said there was only a small number of locally bred cattle heads at the haat.