Editorial
Breakdown of the capital's roads
Why can't the repairs be finished before monsoon?
We often take great pride in Dhaka being the political, cultural and commercial capital of independent Bangladesh and in its cultural and urban history. But the actual picture, with the sprawling growth of the present-day Dhaka being compounded by the sheer lack of management of the services, is completely different
The five photographs carried in the front page of yesterday's issue of The Daily Star speak volumes about how quite a good number of under-repair city roads have turned into virtual traps. Resultantly, many vehicles including buses, trucks, three-wheelers and rickshaws either turned turtle or got stuck in the holes camouflaged under the water, causing immense sufferings to the passengers.
Evidently, the service providing agencies, especially Dhaka WASA could not care less about public sufferings. We have always seen that it embarks on road repair or drainage works just before or during the monsoon, leaving not only the work but also the passengers at the mercy of the season. This is a clear demonstration of an ill-planned service which now has led to nothing less than a chaos. We would like know why all the repair works after the pipe installment were not completed before the monsoon.
Going by the report which accompanied the said photographs, we think there is a dubious nexus between the conductors and some vested quarters, which the concerned authority must take into account.
This government had unilaterally bifurcated the DCC ignoring widespread criticism in its so-called attempt to better the management of the city, the public services in particular. To our utter disappointment, however, we do not see any sign of better management. On the other hand, the lack of coordination between the different agencies and the two parts of DCC seems to have deepened compounding the citizens' woes.
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