More parks for Dhaka city
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
THE Dhaka city has fewer parks than what it needs. Except Ramna, Gulshan-2 and Chandrima Uddyan, there is no big park in the capital for the people to go. People cannot go to the botanical garden and the Baldha garden everyday.
Many of the small parks in different localities have been illegally occupied by land grabbers with the help of some unscrupulous officials of the Dhaka City Corporation. Some land of the Ramna park and Suhrawardy Uddyan have been grabbed by organisations, sharing their boundaries.
According to experts, a city needs to devote 25 per cent of its area for greeneries and parks. But the Dhaka city has less than 10 per cent. Though the city has been expanding on all sides there is no initiative to increase its park or greeneries. The government should give highest priority to creating this lacking facilities.
Mir Shawkat Ali
Segunbagicha, Dhaka
Many of the small parks in different localities have been illegally occupied by land grabbers with the help of some unscrupulous officials of the Dhaka City Corporation. Some land of the Ramna park and Suhrawardy Uddyan have been grabbed by organisations, sharing their boundaries.
According to experts, a city needs to devote 25 per cent of its area for greeneries and parks. But the Dhaka city has less than 10 per cent. Though the city has been expanding on all sides there is no initiative to increase its park or greeneries. The government should give highest priority to creating this lacking facilities.
Mir Shawkat Ali
Segunbagicha, Dhaka