This 41-foot wide road at Senpara Parbata in Mirpur in the capital remained in this utterly dilapidated state for a long time as the DCC took no initiative to repair it.Photo: STAR

Years of neglect has remodelled most the roads of Senpara Parbata in Mirpur Section 10 with huge bumps and potholes, bringing about everyday misery for the residents of the neighbourhood.
The roads 5 and 6 under Ward 14 here did not see any repair in the last 20 years, said Delwar Hossain, resident of Road 6. Usually the roads get damaged within couple of years of construction or repair, so 20 years is a long time to cause enough damage on the roads, he added.
Abdul Halim, a shopkeeper on Road 8, said since construction seven years ago, the road never witnessed any repairing and is now in a very pitiable condition.
Many other roads in the locality witnessed the same fate. These roads, though two decades old, don't even have a name.
Md Jahir of Senpara Parbata said most of the roads are in a miserable condition and go under ankle-to-knee-deep water even after a moderate rain. People living here don't get any rickshaw during or after rain, he said.
"It's tough to get a rickshaw during the rain and if we get one, they charge double or even more," Jahir added.
"My wife and six-year-old daughter also suffer much to go to her school through these roads," he added.
Tamanna, a first-year student of Eden College, said she has to walk a long way on these badly damaged roads. "Most of the times I don't get any rickshaw as the rickshaw-pullers also don't want to come to this area."
The sick people are the worst sufferers as vehicles, especially rickshaws, carrying them shudder due to the potholes on the roads. Children going to schools in their school vans often get hurt as the congested three-wheelers bump over the roads.
"It is very hard to pull a school van on these roads as I have to give threefold physical labour," said Shahid, a school van driver of Glory International School.
Abdul Kader, commissioner of Ward 14, said there was an allocation of Tk 50 lakh for the area in the last fiscal year, but they did not get a single penny.
“We have already submitted a proposal of Tk 1.5 crore but we may get Tk 70 lakh to repair the roads," he said.
Speaking anonymously, an executive engineer of Zone-7 admitted the poor states of the roads. He said they have already submitted a proposal of Tk 8.5 crore to repair the roads under wards 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 14, 16 and 41.
Each of the wards will get Tk 1 crore on an average for the repair, he said. "If we get the green signal from the authorities, we will invite for tenders for the work," he added.
"We are expecting to start the repair in October.”