FE Today Logo
Search date: 07-07-2014 Return to current date: Click here

Foreign assistance

July 07, 2014 00:00:00


Very often we learn through media about the assistance, grant, loan from many agencies like the World Bank, the Asian development Bank, the Japan International Cooperative Agency, the UN, the UNDP etc. As a resident of the city I would feel that those assistances may be made in diverse sectors so as to make Dhaka a clean city while the whole country should not be excluded. Outlines of some of these Dhaka projects may be garbage removal from roads and footpaths, rehabilitation of foot paths, levelling the roads, remove spikes, water supply and sanitation, car parking, electronic traffic lights, public toilets, a big shopping complex by demolishing all markets of Kawran Bazar, toll collection from vehicles etc.

I believe our planners, parliament members, government officials have seen how the cities in developed countries are managed. We hope that the donor countries and agencies will give loan or grants mentioning specific fields for utilisation of their funds.

Mahmud Ali

New Eskaton Road, Dhaka


Share if you like