Digging roads in monsoon

Digging roads alongside heavy traffic and in rainy weather indeed causes a muddy, dirty and risky environment for all.
The whole thing could well be the result of usual public work procedure; it is linked with our financial year (July-June). The annual budget is passed, say, on the last day of June. However, the Roads & Highways Department, meant for public road-building activities all across the country, get their funds released at the earliest by end-September or the first week of October.
Then tenders are called, often re-tendered, evaluated and sent for approval of the ministry or the department's head office usually at Dhaka from all across the country. The final approval for issuing the work order is received at the local office, not before end-November at the earliest. Work orders are finally issued, say, by end- January.
Mobilisation by the contractor now starts, bringing in both his and the department's heavy equipment needed for the work, setting up temporary site offices, bringing and storing materials at temporary sites nearby etc. All these activities add on to the time, and nothing physically starts at the site before end- March or April at the earliest.
Naturally the work period gets going at full tempo from May onwards as the rainy season starts. This is the usual way how it goes, based on this writer's actual work experience.
Only sound and reasonable solution could be to have the financial year the same as the calendar year (January-December) period. Then one can expect the work to start at the site, say, around September/ October.
Full-scale work can then happen during the winter's mostly rain-free days. During that season, all, however, have to tolerate the highly dust- laden winds all around at the working area which is absent during the rainy season.
This can lead to health problems for many innocent people, living or passing through the work site and material store areas.
This may lead us to jump 'from frying pan into the fire' situation. Dust will affect people's health, caused by the dust-laden environment all round.
 sam@dhakacom.com