Save Dhaka
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Dhaka is the 9th most populated capital city in the world. Its all areas, localities, roads and streets, govt. offices and commercial places, markets and bazaars, schools, colleges and universities, bus terminals, river stations, railways stations, banks and hospitals and what not are over crowded and jam-packed. The city of Dhaka is beset with chronic problems of load shedding, water supply and sewerage, gas supply, garbage disposal, pollution, indiscriminate parking of vehicles, street hawkers and terrible traffic jam. The area of Dhaka is very small but the population is over one crore and fifty lakh. Yet more and more people are arriving in Dhaka daily. Reports say that Dhaka is at the threshold of a big earthquake that may happen any time. What will happen if a 7-9-magnitude earthquake hits Dhaka? In our normal and day-to-day life we cannot rush a serious and dying patient by ambulance to hospital for treatment, nor we can carry a dead body to the graveyard for burial in time due to traffic jam. What do our authorities concerned say? How will they carry out rescue operations? We all must be always alert, take precaution and be prepared for the eventualities and save Dhaka from becoming another Haiti.
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