Garbage at Gulshan lakeside

Photo: STAR

Would the authorities consider a regulation so that the owners of lakeside properties can be made responsible for clearing the rubbish from the lakeside? After all, their properties are so valuable because of the very lake that some of them seem to despise.
Some owners and developer companies are commendably responsible, but I am appalled by the huge amounts of unwanted building materials being dumped at the lakeside. For example, , at the end of Road 119 of Gulshan, a broken fence has helped dumping. I have supplied photographs of some of the worst examples of such dumping to the Gulshan police but their attitudes were, I am afraid, less than altruistic.
The day after Eid, almost every householder who had celebrated Eid-ul-Azha in the traditional way had flung his bamboo mat down the lakeside! Within a few days, poor folk had rescued those, but I counted over 30 of those this morning. I do not consider this an evidence of piety.
The clearing of the edge of the lake needs to be done by boats or by those with waders - a job that could be a useful deterrent for young men, so that they might have an alternative to taking drugs. In the UK, this is called 'Community Service'.
The lakeside paths are one of the nicest things that have happened to Dhaka and an enormous asset to the social life of all of us. They are worth bothering about.