Reza Mahmud :
A kitchen market adjacent to Jurain rail gate in the capital on Dhaka-Narayanganj rail route has created a serious life risk concern for the shoppers of the area, it is alleged.
Taking severe risk, hundreds of shoppers everyday use the Jurain rail gate market, which has spread over around one square kilometer area. Just two months ago, a shopper was crushed under the wheels of a running here.
Two more kitchen markets with the similar risky position have also been set up at Shyampur and Pagla rail gates on the same route.
According to Dhaka railway police station, 13 people have been killed in different train accidents in this year. The number was 17 in 2015 and 20 in 2014. Most of the incidents occurred at Jurain, Pagla and Shyampur rail-gate markets.
A security officer of railway police station preferring anonymity said, “Our administrative areas are around 300 kilometers. We need more than 3,000 persons for adequate surveillance of all rail gates and other lands. But we have around 300 persons only. It is the major cause of incidents, particularly in the rail gate areas.”
A shopper of Jurain rail-gate market named Shaful Islam, a retired schoolteacher of Gendaria said, they use the market everyday with high-risk of accident.
“Trains cross the Jurain rail gate almost after every one hour. People are really facing serious risk at every moment in the rail-gate market. Often we have seen some people are narrowly escaped from fall in danger while a train passes the area,” he said.
This correspondent while visiting the Jurain rail gate market on Wednesday witnessed that vendors have kept different vegetables and other kitchen items on their shops beside the rail line. The shoppers are busy with buying.
As some people start shouting “Get aware, the train is coming”, the people busy with buying then run to escape from the hit of the train.
When asked a shopper said, “The unsafe shopping is the reality of the market. We come here for the cheaper rate of vegetables. The fishes are also comparatively cheap than other markets. So, we come here even overlooking the vulnerable situation.”
On Friday and Saturday, the kitchen markets get full of buyers. Thousand of people rushed to the markets. And most of the incidents took place in these two weekly holidays.
Some conscious people of Gendaria and Jurain areas said that the railway police should take tougher action to evacuate the illegal markets from the rail-gate areas.
When contacted Yasin Faruk, Officer-in-Charge of Railway Police Station, said, “All the illegal establishments, including temporary kitchen markets, will be evacuated from the land of railway soon.”
A kitchen market adjacent to Jurain rail gate in the capital on Dhaka-Narayanganj rail route has created a serious life risk concern for the shoppers of the area, it is alleged.
Taking severe risk, hundreds of shoppers everyday use the Jurain rail gate market, which has spread over around one square kilometer area. Just two months ago, a shopper was crushed under the wheels of a running here.
Two more kitchen markets with the similar risky position have also been set up at Shyampur and Pagla rail gates on the same route.
According to Dhaka railway police station, 13 people have been killed in different train accidents in this year. The number was 17 in 2015 and 20 in 2014. Most of the incidents occurred at Jurain, Pagla and Shyampur rail-gate markets.
A security officer of railway police station preferring anonymity said, “Our administrative areas are around 300 kilometers. We need more than 3,000 persons for adequate surveillance of all rail gates and other lands. But we have around 300 persons only. It is the major cause of incidents, particularly in the rail gate areas.”
A shopper of Jurain rail-gate market named Shaful Islam, a retired schoolteacher of Gendaria said, they use the market everyday with high-risk of accident.
“Trains cross the Jurain rail gate almost after every one hour. People are really facing serious risk at every moment in the rail-gate market. Often we have seen some people are narrowly escaped from fall in danger while a train passes the area,” he said.
This correspondent while visiting the Jurain rail gate market on Wednesday witnessed that vendors have kept different vegetables and other kitchen items on their shops beside the rail line. The shoppers are busy with buying.
As some people start shouting “Get aware, the train is coming”, the people busy with buying then run to escape from the hit of the train.
When asked a shopper said, “The unsafe shopping is the reality of the market. We come here for the cheaper rate of vegetables. The fishes are also comparatively cheap than other markets. So, we come here even overlooking the vulnerable situation.”
On Friday and Saturday, the kitchen markets get full of buyers. Thousand of people rushed to the markets. And most of the incidents took place in these two weekly holidays.
Some conscious people of Gendaria and Jurain areas said that the railway police should take tougher action to evacuate the illegal markets from the rail-gate areas.
When contacted Yasin Faruk, Officer-in-Charge of Railway Police Station, said, “All the illegal establishments, including temporary kitchen markets, will be evacuated from the land of railway soon.”
