Help us
We the residents of Gulshan 1 [Road # 29] have tried many things to tell the authorities how five business houses are creating immense security problems for the entire neighbourhood. I don't know who gave these business houses permission to operate in a residential neighbourhood. There's a garment factory just in front of the house that I live in. On the right, there are two manpower offices. On my southeast, a private university has settled in. And behind me, there's another manpower office.
The garment factory has about 20 vehicles of different sizes. These vehicles occupy all the roads coming to my residence all day and all night! Most of the time our own cars don't have passage to enter our own building. When we tell them about unruly parking of their cars, they, the drivers of the garment factory, become aggressive. We get scared and don't tell them anything.
A crowd of 15 to 20 officials of this garment factory is always on the road, either smoking or chatting. Mobile tea and cigarette sellers come here to sell their commodities to these officials.
A group of 50 to 60 people is perennially present on the road because of the three manpower-recruiting centres.
Quite often the university authorities organise open-air concerts that continue till midnight. When they do this, it becomes impossible for us to stay in the house. These concerts create problems for not only the families living in our building, but everyone in the neighbourhood. When we request them to stop their drums and music, they say they had taken permission from the police station to stage the concert. We went to the police station and the law enforcers said no one had taken any permission from them and the police are not the authority to allow those concerts, the community is.
So you see! The community is helpless.
We went to the City Corporation and submitted an application. No one did anything about it. We have also spoken to Gulshan Society, but with no result. We appeal to the authorities concerned to help us. At the same time, we appeal to the government to take all sorts of business houses away from the residential areas of Dhaka.
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