Staff Reporter :
The authorities could not yet recover city canals grabbed and illegally occupied by influential quarters.
Dhaka District Administration, City Corporations and Dhaka WASA now and then conduct drives and remove illegal structures from the canals, but cannot sustain.
“We are keen to recover public properties and try hard. But soon after the drives, grabbers again build structures and continue their business,” said Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) of Dhaka Md Mozibor Rahman.
“It is City Corporation’s responsibility to look after the city canals to keep them free,” Mozibor Rahmana added.
Encroachment, illegal grabbing and reckless dumping are ruining the city canals. It requires coordinated sustainable actions from concerned authorities to save them.
Dhaka District Administration owns the canals and city corporations take care thereof while Dhaka WASA uses those to flow sewerage water there into. But none of the authorities is caring for coordinated efforts to save those.
City dwellers often suffer from water logging. Grabbed, dumped, polluted and disappeared city canals must be brought back, said a resident.
As a result, heavy rain pushes the city drainage system to collapse and create enormous sufferings for dwellers.
According to experts and activists, water flow in the capital is obstructed due to unplanned urbanisation, construction of different structures occupying canals and water bodies. Behind the present state of the canals, unauthorized land filling, illegal construction over canals, expansion of slums, solid waste dumping contribute.
Canals of Dhaka city are under serious threat of extinction and need to require immediate recovery actions. At present, most of the drainage channels are either under illegal occupation of influential commercial entities or due to the construction of roads, culverts and sewerage lines.
Citizens and activists demanded immediate recovery of canals with coordinated, integrated and sustainable actions from the concerned authorities for keeping the city canals naturally flowing, encroachment and dumping free. Until and unless authorities recover the canals there might be no improvement of the situation.
Some of the city’s canals like Dholai Khal, Segunbagicha Khal, Jirani Khal, Begunbari Khal and Ibrahimpur Khal have almost disappeared in last four decades due to construction of roads.
Portions of the Khilgaon-Bashabo canal, Abdullahpur canal, Ramchandpur canal, Baunia canal and other such water bodies remain occupied. Major segments of the Rampura canal have been grabbed by local influential people, endangering the environment of the area. Moreover, solid and liquid waste released through the sewerage system directly into the canal is making the lives of residents of the area unbearable.
The green activists also demanded amendment of policy and laws with proper implementation to keep the city canals grabbing-free, dumping-free, and reassess the canal boundaries in the city recently.
The authorities could not yet recover city canals grabbed and illegally occupied by influential quarters.
Dhaka District Administration, City Corporations and Dhaka WASA now and then conduct drives and remove illegal structures from the canals, but cannot sustain.
“We are keen to recover public properties and try hard. But soon after the drives, grabbers again build structures and continue their business,” said Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) of Dhaka Md Mozibor Rahman.
“It is City Corporation’s responsibility to look after the city canals to keep them free,” Mozibor Rahmana added.
Encroachment, illegal grabbing and reckless dumping are ruining the city canals. It requires coordinated sustainable actions from concerned authorities to save them.
Dhaka District Administration owns the canals and city corporations take care thereof while Dhaka WASA uses those to flow sewerage water there into. But none of the authorities is caring for coordinated efforts to save those.
City dwellers often suffer from water logging. Grabbed, dumped, polluted and disappeared city canals must be brought back, said a resident.
As a result, heavy rain pushes the city drainage system to collapse and create enormous sufferings for dwellers.
According to experts and activists, water flow in the capital is obstructed due to unplanned urbanisation, construction of different structures occupying canals and water bodies. Behind the present state of the canals, unauthorized land filling, illegal construction over canals, expansion of slums, solid waste dumping contribute.
Canals of Dhaka city are under serious threat of extinction and need to require immediate recovery actions. At present, most of the drainage channels are either under illegal occupation of influential commercial entities or due to the construction of roads, culverts and sewerage lines.
Citizens and activists demanded immediate recovery of canals with coordinated, integrated and sustainable actions from the concerned authorities for keeping the city canals naturally flowing, encroachment and dumping free. Until and unless authorities recover the canals there might be no improvement of the situation.
Some of the city’s canals like Dholai Khal, Segunbagicha Khal, Jirani Khal, Begunbari Khal and Ibrahimpur Khal have almost disappeared in last four decades due to construction of roads.
Portions of the Khilgaon-Bashabo canal, Abdullahpur canal, Ramchandpur canal, Baunia canal and other such water bodies remain occupied. Major segments of the Rampura canal have been grabbed by local influential people, endangering the environment of the area. Moreover, solid and liquid waste released through the sewerage system directly into the canal is making the lives of residents of the area unbearable.
The green activists also demanded amendment of policy and laws with proper implementation to keep the city canals grabbing-free, dumping-free, and reassess the canal boundaries in the city recently.
