Save Dhaka from becoming another Haiti
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Dhaka, the 9th most populated capital city in the world, is beset with chronic problems of electricity and loadshedding, water supply and sewerage, gas supply, garbage disposal, pollution, indiscriminate parking of vehicles, street hawkers and vendors, public transport system, and perennial traffic jam.
The area of Dhaka is very small but the population is over one crore and fifty lakh people, men, women and children.
Yet more and more people are arriving in Dhaka daily through Gabtali, Mohakhali and Sayedabad bus terminals, Sadarghat launch terminal and Kamalapur railway station.
Experts say that Dhaka is at the threshold of a big earthquake that may occur any time. What happens if an earthquake of the magnitude of 7-9 on the Richter Scale hits Dhaka? What would it be like with thousands of collapsed buildings, blocked roads and streets and millions of affected people clamouring for food, electricity, drinking water and shelter?
In our day to day life we cannot rush a serious and dying patient by ambulance to hospital for treatment nor can we carry a dead body to the graveyard for burial in time due to road traffic jam. In such a dreadful calamity what plans are there of the Disaster Management Ministry?
We all must always be alert, take precaution and be prepared for the eventualities and save Dhaka from becoming another Haiti.
OH Kabir
6, Hare Street,Wari, Dhaka.
The area of Dhaka is very small but the population is over one crore and fifty lakh people, men, women and children.
Yet more and more people are arriving in Dhaka daily through Gabtali, Mohakhali and Sayedabad bus terminals, Sadarghat launch terminal and Kamalapur railway station.
Experts say that Dhaka is at the threshold of a big earthquake that may occur any time. What happens if an earthquake of the magnitude of 7-9 on the Richter Scale hits Dhaka? What would it be like with thousands of collapsed buildings, blocked roads and streets and millions of affected people clamouring for food, electricity, drinking water and shelter?
In our day to day life we cannot rush a serious and dying patient by ambulance to hospital for treatment nor can we carry a dead body to the graveyard for burial in time due to road traffic jam. In such a dreadful calamity what plans are there of the Disaster Management Ministry?
We all must always be alert, take precaution and be prepared for the eventualities and save Dhaka from becoming another Haiti.
OH Kabir
6, Hare Street,Wari, Dhaka.