Preserve public facilities
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The lakeside walks are one of the nicest things to happen in North Dhaka but I am shocked at the way some of those with lakeside houses treat them! These are not poor people, sir! I speak of the Gulshan side of the Badda lake. It is not unusual for the owners of properties to let the builders keep their building materials overflowing public space but these people, once the building is finished, dump their waste, or unused materials, down the side of the lake! The quantity of all sorts of rubbish is really obnoxious but no one is taking responsibility for clearing it up. The lakeside paths are a major public facility for rich and poor, young and old - like the excellent public field in Lalmatia that I lived near for over 3 ½ years and watched it ruined by being taken over by a local cricket club who stopped the locals using it. Whatever authority is accountable needs to be told to take a walk and see the extent to which action is required to preserve public facilities against private greed, laziness and abuse by those who should know better. As I used to tell my pupils, “If the middle and upper classes do not know how to behave, how do you expect the poor to behave?”
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