Reza Mahmud :
Most of the foot-over-bridges in the capital city are unusable as vendors, strollers and beggars dominated those. Besides these, some of them are use those over bridges as toilets.
In such circumstances, people, in most cases use to cross busy streets with high risks of accident ignoring to use foot-over-bridges.
After publishing such reports in The New Nation and other newspapers Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sent directions to the both Dhaka South And North City Corporations to take more effective initiatives to make foot-over-bridges in the city attractive to the pedestrians to use.
“We received a direction from Prime Minister’s office recently to make the foot-over-bridges more usable. As per directives we Appointed waste management employees to make all of our foot-over-bridges clean,” Khandakar Millatul Islam, Additional Waste
Management Officer of Dhaka South City Corporation told The New Nation.
He said the employees of Waste Management section are now busy to wash and wipe all the foot-over-bridges on our jurisdiction.
Official sources said after getting the Prime Minister’s directives, the concern officials from Dhaka South City Corporation and Dhaka North City Corporation sat in a combined meeting on Monday to exchange their experiences on this regards.
The officials have taken decision to make barriers installing more iron grills on pavements in the close areas of foot-over-bridges.
They also have taken decisions to start propaganda through using loud speaker announcement, distributing leaflets among the people.
Officials said, some people had been injured seriously while crossing busy streets after being victims of motor accidents mostly near foot-over-bridges.
In such circumstances, the administrations had taken some initiatives like conducting mobile court campaigns.
Much mobile court had sat near those over bridges and collect huge amount of money as fine from the persons who try to cross the streets ignoring foot-over-bridges.
But the situations were not improved as most of the over bridges were remain unusable due to misuse by a dishonest section of people.
The latest initiatives have been come in these circumstances.
Most of the foot-over-bridges in the capital city are unusable as vendors, strollers and beggars dominated those. Besides these, some of them are use those over bridges as toilets.
In such circumstances, people, in most cases use to cross busy streets with high risks of accident ignoring to use foot-over-bridges.
After publishing such reports in The New Nation and other newspapers Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sent directions to the both Dhaka South And North City Corporations to take more effective initiatives to make foot-over-bridges in the city attractive to the pedestrians to use.
“We received a direction from Prime Minister’s office recently to make the foot-over-bridges more usable. As per directives we Appointed waste management employees to make all of our foot-over-bridges clean,” Khandakar Millatul Islam, Additional Waste
Management Officer of Dhaka South City Corporation told The New Nation.
He said the employees of Waste Management section are now busy to wash and wipe all the foot-over-bridges on our jurisdiction.
Official sources said after getting the Prime Minister’s directives, the concern officials from Dhaka South City Corporation and Dhaka North City Corporation sat in a combined meeting on Monday to exchange their experiences on this regards.
The officials have taken decision to make barriers installing more iron grills on pavements in the close areas of foot-over-bridges.
They also have taken decisions to start propaganda through using loud speaker announcement, distributing leaflets among the people.
Officials said, some people had been injured seriously while crossing busy streets after being victims of motor accidents mostly near foot-over-bridges.
In such circumstances, the administrations had taken some initiatives like conducting mobile court campaigns.
Much mobile court had sat near those over bridges and collect huge amount of money as fine from the persons who try to cross the streets ignoring foot-over-bridges.
But the situations were not improved as most of the over bridges were remain unusable due to misuse by a dishonest section of people.
The latest initiatives have been come in these circumstances.
