Reza Mahmud :
Sands and dust create adverse environment, which is harmful for human health. Most of the city areas are covered with thick layers of dust because of rainless late autumn and winter seasons and construction works.
It is both painful and uncomfortable to work and travel in dusts, such practice affects our health. One of the major reasons of tremendous dusts is digging of roads, lanes and by-lanes by the government agencies like the WASA, the TnT, the Dhaka Power Distribution Company, the Titas, the Roads and Highways department and others.
Sadly these agencies take no measures to finish the work as quick as possible. As a result, dusts fly in the houses, schools, offices, shops and every where, said Abul Khair, owner of a shop in Malibagh Shopping Mall in the capital.
He and other of businessmen in the shopping mall said, their goods are losing luminosity and becoming fade for dusts.
The shop owners said, construction work of the Malibagh-Moghbazar flyover are going on for long. It creates dusts. “We have become tired to save our items from dusts. We find no ways to get rid of this situations,” one of them said.
The suffering people from different areas of the city alleged that the government agencies involved in digging the streets do not take appropriate precautionary measures. In many areas like Jatrabari, Gulistan, Malibagh, Mouchak, Badda, Rampura and Bonosree their renovation work continues for days together. It creates huge dusts spreading in the air
every moment. The dusts harm specially school kids.
The schools which are situated beside streets, the students reading in those institutions are facing untold sufferings. The teachers and the school management are trying to save the children from the thick polluted air by closing the doors and windows. But those schools which have not air conditions, the situations become unbearable.
The experts said, the children are suffering from flux, influenza, cold allergy and related other sickness due to such polluted air.
“We cannot keep our kids imprisoned at homes. To attend the school is a must for them. We have to take them to schools. It means we push them into dusts. It is painful for us and harmful for them,” said Mahbuba Rahman, a mother of a student of City International School and College, Gandaria campus. The housewives fail to keep the households save from dust.
“It seems impossible to keep windows open. The weather is becoming hot after the winter now. So, we need blowing air. But we are forced to close our windows to avoid the thick air. It makes our home dark and also forces us to switch on the lights at day time, which is costly,” said, Fahima Tabassum, from Rampura.
When contacted, DSCC’s Chief Executive Officer Khan Mohmmad Billal told The New Nation, “It is not possible to wash the streets every day to remove dusts. We usually spray water to fight environmental crisis.”
But the people of different professions said, the authority should spray water frequently to save citizens from such sufferings. They also ask the agencies to take appropriate measures during their work in streets to avoid creating dusts.
Sands and dust create adverse environment, which is harmful for human health. Most of the city areas are covered with thick layers of dust because of rainless late autumn and winter seasons and construction works.
It is both painful and uncomfortable to work and travel in dusts, such practice affects our health. One of the major reasons of tremendous dusts is digging of roads, lanes and by-lanes by the government agencies like the WASA, the TnT, the Dhaka Power Distribution Company, the Titas, the Roads and Highways department and others.
Sadly these agencies take no measures to finish the work as quick as possible. As a result, dusts fly in the houses, schools, offices, shops and every where, said Abul Khair, owner of a shop in Malibagh Shopping Mall in the capital.
He and other of businessmen in the shopping mall said, their goods are losing luminosity and becoming fade for dusts.
The shop owners said, construction work of the Malibagh-Moghbazar flyover are going on for long. It creates dusts. “We have become tired to save our items from dusts. We find no ways to get rid of this situations,” one of them said.
The suffering people from different areas of the city alleged that the government agencies involved in digging the streets do not take appropriate precautionary measures. In many areas like Jatrabari, Gulistan, Malibagh, Mouchak, Badda, Rampura and Bonosree their renovation work continues for days together. It creates huge dusts spreading in the air
every moment. The dusts harm specially school kids.
The schools which are situated beside streets, the students reading in those institutions are facing untold sufferings. The teachers and the school management are trying to save the children from the thick polluted air by closing the doors and windows. But those schools which have not air conditions, the situations become unbearable.
The experts said, the children are suffering from flux, influenza, cold allergy and related other sickness due to such polluted air.
“We cannot keep our kids imprisoned at homes. To attend the school is a must for them. We have to take them to schools. It means we push them into dusts. It is painful for us and harmful for them,” said Mahbuba Rahman, a mother of a student of City International School and College, Gandaria campus. The housewives fail to keep the households save from dust.
“It seems impossible to keep windows open. The weather is becoming hot after the winter now. So, we need blowing air. But we are forced to close our windows to avoid the thick air. It makes our home dark and also forces us to switch on the lights at day time, which is costly,” said, Fahima Tabassum, from Rampura.
When contacted, DSCC’s Chief Executive Officer Khan Mohmmad Billal told The New Nation, “It is not possible to wash the streets every day to remove dusts. We usually spray water to fight environmental crisis.”
But the people of different professions said, the authority should spray water frequently to save citizens from such sufferings. They also ask the agencies to take appropriate measures during their work in streets to avoid creating dusts.
