Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW
Vol. 5 Num 65 Sat. July 31, 2004  
   
Letters to Editor


Problems of Mohammadpur


We the residents of Mohammadpur are facing several problems. They are as follows:

1. The by-lanes in Nurjahan Road and elsewhere have no drains, which in fact is damaging the roads and aedis mosquitoes are growing rapidly in the potholes.

The residents of this area are not attaching pipes to the outlets of their drains of toilets and kitchens, for which aedis mosquitoes are getting spaces to breed themselves in the concrete spaces which are getting damaged and providing craters.

2. There is usually no traffic police to look after the traffic jam at the end of the Nurjahan Road. The local bus owners are dominating the area.

3. The vendors and rickshaws are also creating traffic jams at the end of the Nurjahan Road.

4. A private transport company is keeping all their buses in front of the Residential Model School and driving their huge buses in the residential areas of Muhammadpur, which is creating several problems for the local residents.

5. Our houses are not safe even in day time because of the thieves, who are mostly addicts and need to buy their drugs from the local Town Hall market and Geneva Camp of the non-Bengalees.

6. The non-Bengalees of Geneva Camp and Town Hall camp are creating many problems in the area. No government has been interested in rehabilitating them outside Dhaka, because even after the 33 years of our independence, every year the government is perhaps getting a certain amount of aid by showing their poverty, allegedly.

7. The local businessmen have to give certain amounts of money to the local Mastans, even police and local commissioner's office every month virtually to buy their safety.

Will the authorities concerned look into all these problems?