Too tormented people of this luckless city
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Last year, the power crisis was in full bloom at around the peak of the summer period. But this year the power crisis for the dwellers of this city started even while summer had not started and wintry conditions still existed. With the arrival of summer, the load shedding in the city areas has surpassed all past records. In many areas, load shedding occurs for the duration of two hours after every two hours with electricity.
At least in the past years, people could get interrupted power supply for some six-seven hours from midnight. But load shedding is now more the rule than the exception in most of the areas of the city after midnight. Thus, people are unable to sleep without being tormented for some hours even during the night. Load shedding can be justified as having a relationship to demand. But the suffering people are at a loss to understand why there should be severe load shedding even on Fridays or holidays when demand is far lower or nil from industrial users.
Another source of great suffering for the people of Dhaka is the water supply if it at all can be described as so. For in the name of water, WASA's lines spew out in many areas of the city stinking and dark coloured water which is unfit for hygienic use. Diarrhoea and other diseases linked to impure water are sweeping the city and bringing down a record number. WASA's top man in a recent interview with the press stated that it will take at least three years to get the stink out of the water. Apart from such problems associated with water and power, the city's traffic jammed conditions are also found to be the worst.
So, people cannot be blamed for asking whether there is any government worth the name looking after the minimum well-being of the people of this luckless city.
Munira Hossein
East Testuripara, Tejgaon
Dhaka
At least in the past years, people could get interrupted power supply for some six-seven hours from midnight. But load shedding is now more the rule than the exception in most of the areas of the city after midnight. Thus, people are unable to sleep without being tormented for some hours even during the night. Load shedding can be justified as having a relationship to demand. But the suffering people are at a loss to understand why there should be severe load shedding even on Fridays or holidays when demand is far lower or nil from industrial users.
Another source of great suffering for the people of Dhaka is the water supply if it at all can be described as so. For in the name of water, WASA's lines spew out in many areas of the city stinking and dark coloured water which is unfit for hygienic use. Diarrhoea and other diseases linked to impure water are sweeping the city and bringing down a record number. WASA's top man in a recent interview with the press stated that it will take at least three years to get the stink out of the water. Apart from such problems associated with water and power, the city's traffic jammed conditions are also found to be the worst.
So, people cannot be blamed for asking whether there is any government worth the name looking after the minimum well-being of the people of this luckless city.
Munira Hossein
East Testuripara, Tejgaon
Dhaka