Residents need training in civic sense
Thursday, 10 June 2010
I often visit Uttara's sector 4. It is a great neighbourhood and the field in the middle is a great place for children as well as older people to do physical exercise and so on. It is also a quiet neighbourhood with beautiful multi-storied buildings that house many flats. It was only after sometime that I became aware that perhaps not all the residents were conscientious citizens and really needed to be trained in how to live in an urban area and also how not to misuse many services, specially water.
On my way to and back from my friend's place I would see that drivers or domestic help were using garden hoses to wash vehicles owned by the residents and many a times I have seen water gushing out from a hose that had been abandoned on the lawn, the driveway or by the roadside by the person or persons who had probably left the scene to do a chore or something and had forgotten to turn off the tap, or plain just didn't care. And this is happening regularly in most so-called posh areas in the city. We also know that about 70 percent of the people living in Dhaka city have trouble getting water to drink forget about washing cars. They also told me that only a few hundred yards away, people near the railway tracks lined up everyday near sources of water for their daily use.
What kind of an insensitive and apathetic people have we become?
Sultan Ahmed Khan
Agargaon, Dhaka
On my way to and back from my friend's place I would see that drivers or domestic help were using garden hoses to wash vehicles owned by the residents and many a times I have seen water gushing out from a hose that had been abandoned on the lawn, the driveway or by the roadside by the person or persons who had probably left the scene to do a chore or something and had forgotten to turn off the tap, or plain just didn't care. And this is happening regularly in most so-called posh areas in the city. We also know that about 70 percent of the people living in Dhaka city have trouble getting water to drink forget about washing cars. They also told me that only a few hundred yards away, people near the railway tracks lined up everyday near sources of water for their daily use.
What kind of an insensitive and apathetic people have we become?
Sultan Ahmed Khan
Agargaon, Dhaka