Racket surrounding Padma Bridge

Fraudsters are approaching the poor people of different districts with promises of recruitment for the future construction of Padma Bridge. Needless to say, this is a project that has yet to be finalised and whatever promises being made are totally baseless. That these cheats are making use of fictitious Bridges Division forms to trick poor people of precious savings anywhere between Tk. 5,000 and Tk. 30,000 is worrying enough. That advertisements have been published in some dailies stating that 40,000 people will be recruited over a period of four years has caused false hope for future employment. Basically how could such a scam get started in the first place?
We urge the authorities to take concrete steps against the gangs that are active in a number of districts so that they are stopped in their tracks. It may not be surprising that victims are unwilling to come forward to name culprits in the fear of being deleted from the fabled list of those who dream of work in the project. Given that the targeted populace come from poor backgrounds with little by way of education, their hopes for landing a construction job on such a big project are set to be dashed. It is precisely the hunger of jobs fraudsters take advantage of. Since the authorities are seized of the issue, law enforcement agencies should bust these criminal rings so as people are no longer shortchanged.