COX'S BAZAR, Feb 22: Mosquito menace has made life miserable of tourists and town dwellers in tourist town Cox's Bazar. It has become extremely difficult to carry on with any sort of work anywhere in the house, hotel, motel or in the office as menace of mosquito increasing day by day in the town and it's adjoining areas.
Such a situation was not found in this town for at least the last two decades, town dwellers and tourists said.
According to sources, both the pucca and kutcha drains built in an unplanned manner, are hardly cleared and full of stagnant water, mud and other garbages. As a result most unhealthy and unhygienic atmosphere has been created in all the areas of this tiny town.
Concrete drains were so badly built that water is hardly found to pass through those drains, while the kutcha ones are full of mud and dirty water with harmful bad odour. It is polluting the atmosphere of healthy town Coxs Bazar.
It was further found that dustbins built during 1994-95 are not regularly cleared but those are found filled with garbages, filths, dead dogs, cats or rats lying for days together. It is creating a most unhealthy and harmful atmosphere all around.
Whenever the garbage is cleared, the places are not sprayed with anti-mosquito medicine. So is the case with the so-called drains.
This correspondent visited some areas of Cox's Bazar town in last three days and noticed a dismal picture in all the areas of the 12 wards of municipality. It was observed that all the ponds and tanks were full of water-hyacinth with no trace of water. All the ponds have turned into safe breeding centres for mosquitoes.
24 years ago in 1994, Cox's Bazar municipality was upgraded into a first class municipality, but witnesses by tourists and local people only reminds the days of third class municipality.
Local inhabitants demanded mosquito eradication programmes to the concern authority.
When contacted Mahbubur Rahman, acting mayor of Cox's Bazar municipality claimed that the drains and dustbins are cleared every month but due to lack of provision of fund spraying of insecticides is not possible.
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