Mosquito menace at Hazrat ShahJalal intl. airport
A few days back, I went to the Hazrat Shahjalal intl. Airport to receive a guest of mine who was flying to Bangladesh from the USA. I bought an entrance ticket for Tk. 200, and entered the Concord Hall of the terminal building. To my utter discomfort, I found thousands of mosquitoes there inside the hall. I had to wait there for one dreadful hour in that mosquito-infested place for my guest. In that long one hour, I saw all the people in the Concord Hall were fighting ceaselessly against the mosquitoes with their bare hands.
The Hazrat Shahjalal Airport is a property of the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) under the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism. As far as I know, it (CAAB) is one of the richest bodies of the country. Can't it keep the airport free from mosquitoes? Every year more than half a million air travellers use this airport. What is the first impression of the foreigners who land in this mosquito-infested airport? Keeping an airport free from mosquito is not a big deal like firing cannon. What is needed is the sense of duty and responsibility of the authority concerned.
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