Barishal Correspondent :
Dwellers and visitors of Barishal city, the divisional headquarter and gateway of six districts, suffering from acute shortage of public toilets.
The Barishal City Corporation (BCC) with 58 square kilometer areas and about 6 lakh permanent residents and more than twenty percent visitors for works in the city, have only nine public toilets for emergency needs.
Besides three more public toilets became closed for dilapidated condition.
However, most of the running public toilets operating in unhygienic conditions.
Mainly females, children, aged peoples, patients, pedestrians, members of lower income groups like rickshaw pullers, , day labors, hawkers, small shopkeepers facing problem in responding nature’s call due to absence of public toilets.
Dr Matiur Rahman, chief medical officer of BCC, said BCC has planned to construct sufficient numbers of public toilets as per ration of the population and visitors in different important, busy and crowded places of the city.
The running nine public toilets situated within 10 out of 58 square kilometer radius of the city in city center and surrounding areas of Rupatali and Nathullabad bus terminals, Nathullabad passenger’s waiting room, Barishal River port, Green City Park, Chowmatha, Amtala, Mukijodda Park , Sher-E- Bangla Medical College.
Three closed public toilets and baths were situated at Amanatganj, Natun Bazaar and Riverport areas.
Rest 48 square kilometers areas with densely population and social-commercial activities like Amanatganj, Kawnia, Chawkbazaar, Bagura Road, Sagordi, Ichhakati, city and district court compounds have no public toilet arrangements.
So people became bound to attend nature’s call at the sides of roads, walls, drains, canals, creating public nuisance scenarios, health hazards and environment pollutions, said Rafiqul Alam, president Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon (BAPA), Barishal unit.
Besides none of the existing public toilets is women friendly and so it became very difficult to use those by them’ said Rebeka Sultana, one of house wife and female entrepreneurs of Katpatty area of the city.
We need at least one public toilet at every ward of the 30 wards of BCC, said Kajal Ghosh, president, Barishal Sangskritik Sanghathan Samonnoy Parishad.
All public toilets are operating in unhygienic conditions and so without acute emergency calls of nature none want to use those, opined Suvankar Chakrabarty, one of environment activist.
Dwellers and visitors of Barishal city, the divisional headquarter and gateway of six districts, suffering from acute shortage of public toilets.
The Barishal City Corporation (BCC) with 58 square kilometer areas and about 6 lakh permanent residents and more than twenty percent visitors for works in the city, have only nine public toilets for emergency needs.
Besides three more public toilets became closed for dilapidated condition.
However, most of the running public toilets operating in unhygienic conditions.
Mainly females, children, aged peoples, patients, pedestrians, members of lower income groups like rickshaw pullers, , day labors, hawkers, small shopkeepers facing problem in responding nature’s call due to absence of public toilets.
Dr Matiur Rahman, chief medical officer of BCC, said BCC has planned to construct sufficient numbers of public toilets as per ration of the population and visitors in different important, busy and crowded places of the city.
The running nine public toilets situated within 10 out of 58 square kilometer radius of the city in city center and surrounding areas of Rupatali and Nathullabad bus terminals, Nathullabad passenger’s waiting room, Barishal River port, Green City Park, Chowmatha, Amtala, Mukijodda Park , Sher-E- Bangla Medical College.
Three closed public toilets and baths were situated at Amanatganj, Natun Bazaar and Riverport areas.
Rest 48 square kilometers areas with densely population and social-commercial activities like Amanatganj, Kawnia, Chawkbazaar, Bagura Road, Sagordi, Ichhakati, city and district court compounds have no public toilet arrangements.
So people became bound to attend nature’s call at the sides of roads, walls, drains, canals, creating public nuisance scenarios, health hazards and environment pollutions, said Rafiqul Alam, president Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon (BAPA), Barishal unit.
Besides none of the existing public toilets is women friendly and so it became very difficult to use those by them’ said Rebeka Sultana, one of house wife and female entrepreneurs of Katpatty area of the city.
We need at least one public toilet at every ward of the 30 wards of BCC, said Kajal Ghosh, president, Barishal Sangskritik Sanghathan Samonnoy Parishad.
All public toilets are operating in unhygienic conditions and so without acute emergency calls of nature none want to use those, opined Suvankar Chakrabarty, one of environment activist.
