The city
Dhaka is celebrating its 400 years of age. It is recognized as the hub of tradition, culture, history, business and other aspects of Bangladesh. Nevertheless , to most people living in Dhaka, this is more popular as a city of misery, trouble and harassment. The question is 'which problems do not exist in Dhaka?' From a bird's eye view, it seems that these problems are quite unsolvable. Frequent outbreak of newer problems has become a normal thing in Dhaka. Numerous problems such gas shortage, electricity and power shortage, alarming outburst of hijacker-'molom' party, pick pocketing, traffic jam, human jam have become the day to day companions for the Dhaka dweller. Land grabbing and pollution of the Buriganga, Shitalakhya, Turag have been adding to the miseries of the city dwellers. As per recent statistics, Dhaka remains within the top five polluted cities around the world.
It is important to keep in our mind that building a 'developed and modern Dhaka' is not only a responsibility of the govt. but also the people of the country.
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