Dhaka, Sept. 20 -- Around 700 consumers have formed a human chain to reduce the tax on bidi industry from this fiscal year to run the industry.

They also placed five points of demands, including withdrawal of recently hiking of 4 percent tax on each packet of bidi and stimulating the financial assistance to the bidi cultivators and traders.

The consumers also requested the authorities concerned to fix the price of each packet of low quality cigarette at Tk 100 while each packet of bidi Tk 10 only and taking intitiative to ban of duplicat bidi in the markets across the country.

The demands were placed to the journalists from a human chain under the banner of 'Bidi Consumers Association' at Mendibagh in Sylhet city on Sunday.

The speake...