Indira Rd, Rajabazar in pain for digging
The residents of Indira Road and Rajabazar in the capital are facing immense sufferings as road excavations are going on day after day in the middle of the monsoon for laying of utility lines.
Heaps of mud, bricks, brick chips, sand and pipes have narrowed the roads in Indira and Razabazar, resulting in horrendous traffic jams in other parts of the area like Panthapath and Khamarbari.
Though according to a guideline of the Dhaka city corporation, utility service providers will have to complete their digging work by May, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) to check the excavations by other utility service providers has started the works in May and they are still going on.
Md Forhad, executive engineer of zone-1 of DNCC, said as it took long to complete all procedures of tenders, they started the work late.
He said they were trying to finish it by mid-August.
Another official said the June-July financial year was a barrier to complete the task in time. “To do the work by June, we have to continue it even in the rainy season. If the corporation and service providers count the financial year from January to December, it would be easier."
Mohammad Sohel Rana, a resident of Boubazar of Indira Road, said due to the road digging, they had to spend around one and a half hours to go to Banglamotor, which usually took half an hour.
He said the work should have been done in a systematic way but they were doing it haphazardly.
The condition of the road is so bad that anytime any major accident can occur during rains, he said.
Three residents in Rajabazar had fallen into construction ditches during rain around 10 days back, he said.
Mariya Akhtar, a class X student of Naznin School and College, said she had to go to school on foot for the last one month.
She said it became very difficult during rains, and at that time it took her double the usual time.
Firoz, staff of Be Connection Tailors in Rajabazar, said customers' visits to his tailoring shops had dropped by 20 percent during Ramadan due to the digging.
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