Kurigram town has virtually become a safe haven for both drug dealers and addicts,
thanks to lax monitoring by the law enforcing agencies.
After the evening, the town goes under the control of drug dealers and buyers.
Youths and adolescents account for a majority of the consumers of the illegal drugs.
Easily availability of the drugs at a large number of points in the town has kept the
guardians worried about their school and college-going children’s giving in to their
temptation.
Drug addicts visit Chamra Gola every evening where drugs are sold and bought almost in
a free style.
The drug dealers continue their business allegedly with connivance of a section of police
officials.
Drugs smuggled from neighbouring India enter the town through Tapu Bhelakopar
Gorerpar.
Sources said about 10,000 bottles of Phensidyl syrup, several kilograms of hemp and
other drugs enter the town every day.
A large quantity of the smuggled drugs is transported to different regions by road and
river routes.
Each bottle of Phensidyl costs Tk 200 to Tk 250 in India and it is sold in Bangladesh at
Tk400 to Tk450 at retail price.
Kurigram municipality mayor Nur Islam Nuru admitted the spread of drugs trading and
addiction in the district at dangerous level.
He said the future is dark unless the young generation is protected from the abuse of
drugs.
He added if the administration becomes serious, Kurigram could be free from drugs.
The officer- in- charge of Kurigram Sadar Police Station said police are taking all types
of measures to eradicate illegal drugs business from the town. -UNB, Kurigram
