City of opportunity?
Prof. Nazrul Islam, Chairman of the University Grants Commission, has said that Dhaka is the city of opportunity. This opportunity brings misfortune for the city as well as for the city dwellers. In the last two or three decades, the population here has increased four times. At present more than one crore and thirty lakh people live in Dhaka city. To meet the needs of this citizens, the city is losing its capacity. Water crisis, load shedding, traffic jam are now acute.
These issues need to be addressed in right earnest.
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