Shahara for ID cards of DSE investors
Home Minister Shahara Khatun yesterday asked Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) authority to introduce identity cards for DSE investors in an effort to tackle untoward situations centring sudden fall in share prices.
DSE was also urged to install close circuit television cameras from DSE office to Shapla Chattar to beef up security in the busy Motijheel area of the city.
Shahara made the recommendations at a meeting with Securities and Exchange Commission and DSE personnel and chiefs of law enforcing agencies held at her ministry.
City dwellers recently experienced a series of vandalisms in Motijheel area allegedly by the agitating investors.
Sahara told reporters following the meeting that vested quarters in guise of aggrieved investors go on rampage, damaging vehicles and establishments to deteriorate law and order situation and interrupt traffic movement in the area.
Meeting sources said the home ministry also made five recommendations including formation of a crisis management team, a co-ordination committee and intensification of police patrol there to tackle traffic jam.
DSE President Shakil Rizvi told reporters that the time and process to introduce the identity cards would be decided in the board meeting.
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