DCC uplift work suffers as 50pc commissioners are on the run
Friday, 21 March 2008
Naim-Ul-Karim
The sufferings of the city's around 12 million dwellers will mount in the next monsoon, as the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) is yet to start repairing works of many streets and improve drainage system in the capital city, officials said.
The officials of the DCC said around 30 per cent of roads and streets having total length of about 2290 kilometres and 40 per cent of 2460km-long surface drains in the capital under the DCC need immediate repair and improvement ahead of rainy season.
"The DCC could not implement even 50 per cent of its annual development programmes in eight months of the current fiscal year as almost half of its 90 word commissioners have gone into hiding since the takeover by the present army-backed caretaker government," a senior DCC official said.
He said a number of surface drains having no covers in many areas have been filled up with dust and garbage. Those are in need of immediate clean up to restore normal flow of water and rain water.
"We are not yet out of danger from the threat of waterlogging like that of 2004. The city life remained paralysed for at least three days then," the DCC official said.
"Many streets and drains in the city's Motijheel, Mirpur, Kallyanpur, Kazipara, Shewrapara, Agargaon, Jhikatola, Shyamoli, Madartek, Khilgaon, Malibagh and Adabor, which went under knee deep water in 2004 due to poor drainage system, are now again in a very bad shape," a DCC official said.
The sufferings of the city's around 12 million dwellers will mount in the next monsoon, as the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) is yet to start repairing works of many streets and improve drainage system in the capital city, officials said.
The officials of the DCC said around 30 per cent of roads and streets having total length of about 2290 kilometres and 40 per cent of 2460km-long surface drains in the capital under the DCC need immediate repair and improvement ahead of rainy season.
"The DCC could not implement even 50 per cent of its annual development programmes in eight months of the current fiscal year as almost half of its 90 word commissioners have gone into hiding since the takeover by the present army-backed caretaker government," a senior DCC official said.
He said a number of surface drains having no covers in many areas have been filled up with dust and garbage. Those are in need of immediate clean up to restore normal flow of water and rain water.
"We are not yet out of danger from the threat of waterlogging like that of 2004. The city life remained paralysed for at least three days then," the DCC official said.
"Many streets and drains in the city's Motijheel, Mirpur, Kallyanpur, Kazipara, Shewrapara, Agargaon, Jhikatola, Shyamoli, Madartek, Khilgaon, Malibagh and Adabor, which went under knee deep water in 2004 due to poor drainage system, are now again in a very bad shape," a DCC official said.