<i> Is it impossible?</i>
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I have learnt from a local newspaper of 15th December that there are twenty thousand people living under open sky in Dhaka City. 'Coalition for the Urban Poor', an organisation working for this people, provides this information. These people sleep on the pavements, islands and park benches. They can hardly find any abandoned building for passing the night nowadays, though even a decade back, many homeless people could live in the deserted govt. buildings. Now corridors of the market and community centre also remain closed at night with tight security. We, the city dwellers, are habituated to this. So, it does not hamper our normal life. We can eat, drink and enjoy in our room seeing these people through the window. Is it an impossible work for all the inhabitants of Dhaka City to bring these twenty thousand people under roof?
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