A NEWSPAPER recently reported that remains of a damaged building are lying scattered over a large area on Kuakata sea beach for years that causing trouble to the tourists. A bio-gas plant cum rest house owned by Local Government Engineering Department in the beach area was damaged during the cyclone Sidr in 2007. The LGED later sold the damaged building in auction, but chunks of concrete and bricks remained scattered under sand. Due to regular tides, the remains emerge for removal of sand. Now the debris becomes an obstacle for freely walking or taking bath. People often got injured while taking bath as the debris are not visible under water during the high tide.
It’s very astonishing how the authorities concerned could be so irresponsible making the country’s one of the most stunning beaches unusable! The Kuakata sea beach with panoramic view in the southwestern region draws a large number of tourists from home and abroad every year. Its specialty is — both sunrise and sunset can be enjoyed from here. It’s a little sandy beach stretching only 18 kilometres long and 3 kilometres wide. That means it’s not enormous like Cox’s Bazar beach. The spot should be kept safe and clean considering the interest of a large number of tourists from home and abroad. But what we see that the authorities didn’t pay heed to the problem for long 13 years.
It’s also a glowing example of government’s mismanagement – how the government machinery operates. The LGED, one of the largest operational sections of the government, has shown it casual attitude and capriciousness by not removing the remaining of their damaged office building. It costs millions of dollar to create an artificial beach. Here, the nature has gifted us the resource. But we are so unfortunate nation that we have no capacity to maintain a natural beach.
