Activities related to conduction of Mobile Court in different time
- On January 2016, forty nine mobile courts were operated by the Executive Magistrates at district and national level. Total BDT Tk.47, 900/= was fined from 48 persons.
- On February 2016, twenty six mobile courts had been operated by the Executive Magistrates at district and national level. Total BDT Tk.29, 900/= was fined from 42 persons.
- On March 2016, sixty three mobile courts had been operated by the Executive Magistrates at district and national level. Total BDT Tk. 2, 37, 500/= was fined from 158 persons and 11 shops.
- A letter was issued to all Civil Surgeon and Deputy Commissioners of sixty four districts to operate mobile court at district level to ensure the printing of graphical health warnings on all types of tobacco packs from 19th March 2016.
- Reports on WNTD and mobile court were collected from 36 districts. For collection of rest of the reports all program officers of NTCC pursued it.
- NTCC has received 47 reports of district taskforce committee and mobile court from Civil Surgeons (CS) of 64 districts in the second quarter of 2015.
- On September 2015, sixty six mobile court had been operated by the executive magistrate at district and national level. Total Tk.16, 783/= was fined from 97 persons.
- With the support from WHO Bangladesh, NTCC taken the initiative to conduct mobile courts in all 64 districts in Bangladesh during October 2017. By these mobile courts, BDT 7,94,134/- was collected as fine from Tobacco Industries/shop owners and smokers for violation of law. They destroyed many tobacco products for not following the proper graphic health warnings in the tobacco products packets. One owner of tobacco industry were sent to prison for five months for violating law. So NTCC has communicated all civil surgeon offices of Bangladesh to ensure mobile court operation and guided them to sent report on time.
coordinator
Md. Khairul Alam Shiekh
Coordinator (Joint Secretary)
Coordinator (Joint Secretary)