Our Correspondent

SIRAJGANJ, Mar 4: People of the district have been suffering for the want of coins and notes of small denominations for a long time.

Serious shortage of smaller coins and notes all over the district including nine upazilas has made financial transactions difficult for the people.

Visiting the shopping centres of the district town and rural areas, this correspondent found that the supply of coins of Tk 1, Tk 2 and Tk 5 and notes of Tk 1, Tk 2 and Tk 5 denominations was inadequate in the haat and bazars in the district.

As a result, the rickshaw pullers, van drivers, shopkeepers, traders at kitchen markets, betel leaf stalls, tea stalls, mobile phone booths and common people complain that they were always facing problems in changing money.

Even the beggars are receiving less alms from the people for shortage of smaller coins and notes.

Sources said small coins were being used as raw materials in some steel factories and also being saved in little earthen banks at home which were aggravating the crisis.