Make Dhaka liveable and safe
Because of the growing pressure and overcrowding of a population of around 21 million, the capital Dhaka ranks at the bottom of the global liveability index.
Due to continuous degradation of air quality, increasing pressure of population, unhealthy surroundings, environmental pollution, shortage of natural cooking gas and safe drinking water, water logging, intense traffic congestion, the inadequacy of civic facilities, insufficiency of greenery, etc – the normal life of the people of Dhaka is now in a mess and the livability of the mega city is facing complex questions.
There is no alternative to increasing the quality of projected services including planned urbanization, to have adequate greenery, implementation of a Detailed Area Plan (DAP), decentralization of the Dhaka-centric housing system, and increase of citizen facilities necessary to cater to healthy and safe living-to make today’s charmless Dhaka mega city habitable again.
Nazifa Nawarah
Sadar Narsingdi
Abuse of social media
The number of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter users is increasing at an alarming rate these days. Whatever wishes, whoever writes his opinion in an instant whether it has an anti-religious, anti-humanitarian, or negative impact on the social context is out of the question. The ghost of cheap popularity has haunted most of the users. However, in this case, the young society is ahead. They don’t stop commenting like that, they are also trying to gain popularity with various video contents.
There is nothing like learning or positive impact on society in these promoted videos, but they are obsessed with various obscenities. The video is being released at the moment by holding various body postures through communication. These poor young people are walking towards darkness day by day.
So, family should explain to the child from the beginning about the positive and negative aspects of using social media. The main responsibility of the child is to restrain his own family in these matters.
Redwan Mahmud
Dhaka
