When will this digging of roads stop to ensure better drainage?
Thursday, 26 February 2009
THEY have been digging canals (that's what they look like) all over Indira Road and only now covered most of them. The entire operation took some half a year or more. This was to provide better drainage during the time of the monsoon rains. Will it work, this latest drainage system? Only time and the rain will tell. The question is, is all the work finished? Because, after sometime if they start digging, for WASA, say, when are going to cover them again? Or, for gas pipelines.
Really, could not all these departments of the state coordinate between themselves so that they do not make the public suffer unnecessarily? Is that really too much to ask.
Then there are the buildings going all over the capital. We have our share of them in Indira Road as well. They do not care if they are disturbing the neighbours with their high decibels. Sometimes they work non-stop, even through the night. And sometimes they also work on Fridays.
Is there a code of ethics to be followed in these matters? Do these people understand that the frightful noises that they create with their myriad of construction tools and machineries are harmful for the public, specially from close range?
Once I wondered out loudly whether the authorities would ever look into these matters whereupon my friend asked: "Have vehicles emitting black fumes stopped running on the road just because there is an ordinance (or some such thing) against it?"
Rahmat Ullah
Mirpur, Dhaka
Really, could not all these departments of the state coordinate between themselves so that they do not make the public suffer unnecessarily? Is that really too much to ask.
Then there are the buildings going all over the capital. We have our share of them in Indira Road as well. They do not care if they are disturbing the neighbours with their high decibels. Sometimes they work non-stop, even through the night. And sometimes they also work on Fridays.
Is there a code of ethics to be followed in these matters? Do these people understand that the frightful noises that they create with their myriad of construction tools and machineries are harmful for the public, specially from close range?
Once I wondered out loudly whether the authorities would ever look into these matters whereupon my friend asked: "Have vehicles emitting black fumes stopped running on the road just because there is an ordinance (or some such thing) against it?"
Rahmat Ullah
Mirpur, Dhaka