CHATTOGRAM, June 25: Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) will seek work schedule of the mega project to address the port city's waterlogging problem.
CCC Mayor AJM Nasir Uddin will write to Chattogram Development Authority (CDA) Chairman Abdus Salam soon to get the job done in the monsoon.
The CDA is implementing the Tk 56.16 billion project.
He will also request the CDA for removal of the dam on Bamonshahi canal in CDA Ananya Residential Area.
The dam is polluting the Halda river and damaging the freshwater breeding ground.
Mr Uddin said this at a coordination meeting on waterlogging mitigation and four other projects to lessen the problems of the city-dwellers.
The meeting was convened on Sunday as per the directives of the Prime Minister's Office in 2016.
Road cutting by utility service providers, construction of bus and truck terminals, congestion caused by unregistered vehicles and illegal hill cutting were also discussed.
Heads of different government agencies attended the meeting held in the CCC auditorium.
However, Mr Abdus skipped the meeting. Even he did not send any representative there.
The CDA chief said he had to attend a meeting of the housing and public works ministry the same day.
It remained unclear why the ministry sat with Mr Salam on the day of the coordination meeting on the port city's development projects.
The media was prohibited from covering the event.
About the matter, Mr Uddin said a section of the media reported that the pace of renovating Agrabad Access Road and Port Connecting Road is very slow.
This is simply a propaganda campaign, he added.
The project is in progress and the contractors are scheduled to complete the work by May 2019.
The city father asked for a progress report on the work within the next 15 days.
He said Chattogram WASA, Power Development Board, T&T and other service providers are cutting roads after getting approval of the projects.
This has made the public suffer immensely.
But they eventually blame the CCC for their sufferings.
"The CCC is left with no option but to permit road cutting once a project is approved," Mr Uddin said.
At the meeting, the mayor sought full coordination among public service agencies to lessen public sufferings.
He said various development works worth over Tk 30 billion are also being implemented here.
Sunday's meeting was the 12th meeting of the Chattogram Development Coordination Committee, CCC officials said.
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