Mohini Mills

Mohini Mills

Mohini Mohon Chakroborty is one of the noble men of the very early period of English colonization. Mohini mill sets up in the year of 1908 at the river side of Gorai in Kushtia district. The beginning paid soon. In the year of 1912 it increases its loom to 203 after ten years it reaches in 529 looms along with 19,000 shuttles. A record says up to 55 thousands yards of better fabrics produced at that time. And profit was at least 30 crore in a single year. It is a hundred year old factory has a huge area. It is about 33 acres of land with over 2000 employee. There is a school named after Mohini Mohon, a huge playground, a temple, a large pond, a medical centre and quarters for the officers which were double rooms. First bad fortune comes to the fate of this mill in the year of 1965 with the trouble with Pakistan and India. After finishing the war the Pakistani military declares that it is a property of the enemy. The Pakistani banned Mohini and made them out of the country with his family members. Then the property goes under the ‘East Pakistan Industrial Development Service’ (EPIDS). After the independence of Bangladesh in becomes the property of The Textile Mills Corporation. It again starts its production with the then workers. After 2 years it reaches its loss of total 12 crores in 1978 and 18 lakhs in 1979. It was the result of mismanagements, corruptions, misappropriation of fund etc. The Mohini Mill started a new journey in the year of 1985 on 31st January with the name of ‘Shah Makhdum Mills’. This time it starts with only 100 workers. It again shuts down in 1987 with 10 months unpaid bill of the worker. This again happen in 1989 and closed in that year. In this year many machines sold by the neighbors of the mill. In the year of 1991 this mill closed forever. In this year all workers worked day and night for the profit of the mill. Till today this mill’s quarters are alive for their respective mill. But today this mill is nothing but ghost area of entire Kushtia. There are many political issues included for the end of the mill. The main leaders were failed to fulfill their promises, which the people will never forgot. Meanwhile, the great Mohini Mill is now a safer place to growing dust, parasites etc.