DSCC demolishes 100 makeshift structures

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) yesterday demolished around 100 illegal makeshift structures on footpaths in the Hatirpool kitchen market and its adjoining areas, and in Paribagh yesterday.

DSCC executive magistrates Abu Sayied and Mamun Sarder led the drive.

Sayed said they conducted the drive to clear the footpaths and will continue to do so.

Meanwhile, the DSCC purchased a cold recycling asphalt mixing plant and a cold milling machine to modernise road construction, reduce reconstruction costs and maintain proper level of height of a road.

The modern plant will reduce the costs of road repairing work by around 40 percent, said Anisur Rahman, project director of the "road development work using cold recycling system."

The plant is also environmentally conducive and will reduce carbon emissions by 98 percent, he mentioned, adding that it will not produce any dust and smoke when running.

Repeated development work causes a steady increase in the height of roads, which in turn contributes to waterlogging. But the plant would help maintain the roads' proper heights, Anisur observed.