Reza Mahmud :
The responsibility of eliminating water logging goes to Dhaka’s two city corporations, whereas Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) dealt so far.
Sources said, Mayors of Dhaka South City Corporation and Dhaka North City Corporation blamed WASA for failing to eliminate water logging which pained the city dwellers for long.
In these circumstances, Local Government and Rural Development Ministry has taken decision to handover the responsibility to DSCC and DNCC.
To outline necessary efforts, LGRD Ministry calls a meeting today (Sunday) in its office, Haidar Ali, Public relation officer of the Ministry said.
According to official documents, DWASA got main
responsibility to eliminate water loggings in 1989.
The Dhaka City Corporations got partial responsibility.
But years after years, the water logging has remained intact in the capital and the people are suffering for the problem.
Even after a moderate rainfall, the streets of the whole city go under knee-deep water.
On 2017, Mohammad Sayeed Khokon, the then DSCC Mayor said that city corporations was not liable for water logging.
He labelled WASA as a failed organization, unable to walk.
Anisul Huq, the then DNCC mayor, also said that eliminating of water logging from the city is not under his jurisdiction.
On July 16 that year, DNCC organized a coordination meeting in this regard.
The then LGRD Minister Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain, Housing Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain and Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud took part in the meeting.
LGRD Minister called WASA a failed organization and urged the government to handover the responsibility to city corporations.
Engineer Taqsem A Khan, said WASA is responsible to supply drinking water. not liable to eliminate dirty water In Dhaka it is an exceptional matter.
The Minister formed a committee headed by Additional Secretary of his ministry, Nasreen Akter to take recommendations about amending WASA and city corporation laws.
But the law has not been amended yet.
On the other hand, DSCC Mayor Barrister Fazle Noor Tapash on July 22 said in a webiner that WASA had not handedover responsibility of eliminating water logging to city corporations as per rules.
Meanwhile, Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Md Atiqul Islam on Wednesday said, it is not our duty to clean canals to eliminate water logging from the city, but our councillors think that canals should be cleaned through combined efforts.
“So, without waiting for others we started cleaning canals. We planed to clean 16 canals and lakes within this month,” DNCC mayor said.
Earlier he asked the LGRD Minister to give the responsibility to two city corporations so that they can prove it that their promises to curb public sufferings in every ways to be implemented.
In these circumstances, LGRD Minister Tajul Islam told the journalists that he has called a meeting on Sunday to handover water logging elimination responsibility to DSCC and DNCC.
The responsibility of eliminating water logging goes to Dhaka’s two city corporations, whereas Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) dealt so far.
Sources said, Mayors of Dhaka South City Corporation and Dhaka North City Corporation blamed WASA for failing to eliminate water logging which pained the city dwellers for long.
In these circumstances, Local Government and Rural Development Ministry has taken decision to handover the responsibility to DSCC and DNCC.
To outline necessary efforts, LGRD Ministry calls a meeting today (Sunday) in its office, Haidar Ali, Public relation officer of the Ministry said.
According to official documents, DWASA got main
responsibility to eliminate water loggings in 1989.
The Dhaka City Corporations got partial responsibility.
But years after years, the water logging has remained intact in the capital and the people are suffering for the problem.
Even after a moderate rainfall, the streets of the whole city go under knee-deep water.
On 2017, Mohammad Sayeed Khokon, the then DSCC Mayor said that city corporations was not liable for water logging.
He labelled WASA as a failed organization, unable to walk.
Anisul Huq, the then DNCC mayor, also said that eliminating of water logging from the city is not under his jurisdiction.
On July 16 that year, DNCC organized a coordination meeting in this regard.
The then LGRD Minister Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain, Housing Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain and Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud took part in the meeting.
LGRD Minister called WASA a failed organization and urged the government to handover the responsibility to city corporations.
Engineer Taqsem A Khan, said WASA is responsible to supply drinking water. not liable to eliminate dirty water In Dhaka it is an exceptional matter.
The Minister formed a committee headed by Additional Secretary of his ministry, Nasreen Akter to take recommendations about amending WASA and city corporation laws.
But the law has not been amended yet.
On the other hand, DSCC Mayor Barrister Fazle Noor Tapash on July 22 said in a webiner that WASA had not handedover responsibility of eliminating water logging to city corporations as per rules.
Meanwhile, Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Md Atiqul Islam on Wednesday said, it is not our duty to clean canals to eliminate water logging from the city, but our councillors think that canals should be cleaned through combined efforts.
“So, without waiting for others we started cleaning canals. We planed to clean 16 canals and lakes within this month,” DNCC mayor said.
Earlier he asked the LGRD Minister to give the responsibility to two city corporations so that they can prove it that their promises to curb public sufferings in every ways to be implemented.
In these circumstances, LGRD Minister Tajul Islam told the journalists that he has called a meeting on Sunday to handover water logging elimination responsibility to DSCC and DNCC.
