Environmental degradation
The Dhaka city environment with scarcity of safe drinking water, fresh air to breathe & the mosquito menace is almost a hell for many of its dwellers except a very few fortunate people. One has to just see the state of the rivers; Buriganga & Shitalakhya to realise the extent to which we all are so indifferent to allow such dangerous level of pollution. Polluted air with unabated mosquito breeding everywhere are examples of total failure of the civic authorities.
We believe People of China soon after the red revolution tackled such basic problems with sheer human efforts without resorting to any mechanical/chemical aids. On a visit to our nearest neighbour, the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, it was seen that the students/teachers of schools join together to clean-up the city streets/drains regularly on holidays, thereby contributing towards basic health & hygiene of the citizens in addition to the good work of the normal municipal manpower.
Cleanliness is the fundamental requirement of Islam.
Can we, the conscious citizens of this mega-city, along with the support of our govt. of the day with the pledge for "Din Badaler Pala", embark on creating awareness to prevent the situation from deteriorating further? We do not need foreign aid to do so. What we need is a band of willing people to create awareness among the young/old for our survival as decent human beings.
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