Free the footpaths of grabbers
Walking is the best exercise. When you are on a short trip to a nearby place, it is always better to walk. There is an alarming number of diabetes patients and heart patients in Bangladesh who should walk regularly. Walking reduces all the risks associated with different kinds of diseases. But where to walk? Footpaths are illegally occupied by the vendors and land-grabbers. They have grabbed almost all the footpaths of this city forcing the pedestrians to walk on the road and there is no one to take care of this. Even the busy streets of this city are not out of the clutch of the footpath grabbers. Sometimes they even occupy the roads hampering smooth traffic movement.
Eviction of these grabbers from the pavements as well as the roads is the demand of thousands of pedestrians who want to walk on free footpath. But the poor vendors must be rehabilitated so that they can earn a living.
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