The donation boxes at the shrine of Fakir Lalon Shah, at the akhra known as the Baramkhana in Chheuria, Kumarkhali, Kushtia, have been opened again after an interval of 15 days. This time they held Tk 8,27,450.
The seals on the shrine’s two donation boxes were broken at about 10:45am on Monday, 26 October, in the presence of Md Zakir Hossain, additional deputy commissioner (revenue); Md Raisul Islam, upazila nirbahi officer; Navid Sarwar, assistant commissioner (land); and journalists.
On 10 October the boxes were opened and the money counted in public for the first time. They held about Tk 6,49,348 that day, which was later deposited in the Lalon Academy’s bank account.
Confirming the figure, Upazila Nirbahi Officer Md Raisul Islam said the boxes are opened four times a year around Fakir Lalon Shah’s two festivals. In keeping with that, they were opened seven days after the 136th anniversary of his death and held Tk 8,27,450.
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