the nonpayments issue in the bengali tv industry has snowballed into something huge relying on verbal assurances has backfired on many technicians jakir hossen mollick the costume supplier for serials like karunamoyee rani rashmoni debi choudhurani manasa and bhanumatir khel among others is going through a really tough time right now because he doesnt have any written contract among all the artistes and technicians of these serials i have been affected the most i supply clothes to many serials of subrata roy and rana sarkar besides other production houses but they have left me in the lurch said jakir adding subrata roy didnt pay me even after i deposited my bills to him so now i have rs 12 lakh of dues as gst for this reason my gst registration has got cancelled too now i have to get pay rights in my daughters name to be able to create my bills again this is a huge loss for me while he continues to struggle to rebuild his financial footing the channels have intervened to bring some respite for the technicians the three most popular channels airing these serials have taken corrective measures after we all sent an email citing nonpayment of dues as a reason to stop work since rana sarkar is yet to give an noc the channels cant make full payments to us so they are paying 50 of our dues without the gst rana sarkar has not submitted gst till now rued jakir who has also supplied costumes for serials like resham jhanpi shubho drishti prothom protishruti and mahaprabhu shree chaitanya among others