Factories in residential areas
Amdadul Huq / Driknews
The recent tragic incident of Nimtoli has opened everybody's eye and at the same time raised our level of fear and concern. My younger sister is living at Mirpur-2, Dhaka. Although this is a small housing, this is going to be an industrial housing-cum residential area very soon if immediate measure is not taken. At the very entrance of this housing, there is a welding factory which belongs to a very powerful man, just after few yards there is a make-shift generator plant and a few yards after there is a garment's factory belonging to a very high level police officer. The factory is located along with the residential flats. It was learnt that incidents of small fire also happened in that building. People complained several times to the City Corporation but as one is a very powerful man and another one is a very high level police officer, the City Corporation did not take any action. Apart from these, also there are other factories in this housing, such as water bottling plant, CNG garage etc. We are, therefore, requesting the authorities concerned to take immediate action to shift these factories from this residential area for the safety and security of the people.
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