Providing public utilities services to slum areas has always been a significant public policy challenge in developing countries. Providing public utilities services to slum areas has always been a significant
Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka during a meeting yesterday underscored the need for formulating a 100-year-long master plan to keep the capital habitable. He also suggested that a separate independent authority be formed, comprised of environmentalists and experts concerned, to save the rivers around Dhaka as they are dying. Khoka was presiding over a meeting arranged to celebrate 144 years of the DCC at Osmani Auditorium. He said if a 100-year-long master plan is not taken immediately, Dhaka will become an uninhabitable city.
Residents living on Tajmahal Road at Mohammadpur in Dhaka have been suffering for the past four days due to lack of supply of drinking water by Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority, sufferers said. Fifty families of 50 apartments between the holding 10/1 and 10/15 in the area were the worst sufferers as many of the families could not even take their baths for the past four days due to lack of water supply. Zakeria Shirazi, an elderly inhabitant at 10/7 Tajmahal Road said,
The South Asian nations are set to activate the SAARC food bank immediately after the summit meeting to help the member-countries tackle exigent situations after the foreign secretaries reached a consensus on the first day of their two-day meeting here on Tuesday. They agreed to help each other for increasing agricultural production by providing each other technological support as well as making the distribution mechanisms of food-grains more effective.
Bangladesh is now fine-tuning its position papers on crucial regional issues like food, energy, trade and climate change which will figure high in the 15th SAARC Summit, beginning in Colombo on August 2.
The Bangladesh Travel and Tourism Mart, a tourism fair, will start at the Bashundahar City exposition centre in Dhaka tomorrow with a view to disseminating tourism-based information among travellers. Amazing Holidays, a travel agency, and the BRAC Bank are organising the three-day fair, disclosed the organisers in a press conference at the National Press Club in Dhaka on Tuesday.
Major parts of the country will plunge into darkness as the Petrobangla has begun cutting gas supplies to old and worn-out electricity generation plants to ensure more efficient use of gas, officials said yesterday. They said the decision to put fast depleting gas to better use was taken by the government two days ago, with implementation starting on Sunday. "Gas supply to a state-run power plant near Dhaka with more than 100 megawatts capacity has already been stopped and the process will continue," said Jalal Ahmed, chairman of the state-run Petrobangla.
Ramna Park, the green oasis, the lung of the Dhaka city has survived one hundred years amidst the concrete jungle. Though the park is a source of pleasure to the city dwellers with all its natural assets, no one bothered of celebrating the centenary of the park except for two nature lovers, Professor Dwijen Sharma and environmentalist Mokarram Hossain. They are organising a programme to celebrate the park centenary.
Damage of many roads during heavy monsoon showers of the past few days has left the capital's road infrastructure in a shabby state, causing problems to vehicular movement and sufferings to the people. The condition of the roads in Uttara, Dhanmondi, Dakkhin Khan, Mohammadpur and some other areas are in a vulnerable state with potholes developing at many points, residents said.
Housing is the third basic need of human beings, after food and clothing. It is not the individual house alone but a habitat with other facilities like hospitals, schools, prayer halls, play ground utilities and other recreational facilities. In other words, it's the environment with all support facilities for comfortable living that constitutes housing.
The Dhaka Club on Thursday kicked off a three-day tree fair on its premises at Shahbagh to make the members' children familiar with fruits and trees of different kinds. The organisers said that their children living in the city apartments were totally unfamiliar with various local species of fruit and tree plants. The club president, Sadat Hossain Selim, in presence of former presidents Shamsur Rahman, MG Murtaza, AK Feroz Ahmed, Abdus Sattar and Anwar Kabir inaugurated the fair.
