UNB, Dhaka :
Barely one and a half years ago, a trash bin was installed on the footpath in front of office of Executive Engineer, Mirpur Division of Public Works Department on Darussalam road at Mirpur-1 as part of Dhaka’s two city corporations’ bid to make the city a clean one.
Visiting the spot recently, the UNB correspondents found no waste bin there, only the iron stand standing for which the footpaths are getting dirty once again as there are two shops, including a tea-stall, on the footpath.
Abdur Rahim along with his friend, Bipul Saha, was taking tea at the tea-stall the other day. “I used to drop garbage into the bin after its installation here. It was a good decision to improve city’s waste management. But one day I found no bin here except the iron-built stand,” Rahim told UNB. “It has been stolen. But I thought the city corporation will replace it with another. But I find no sign yet to replace it,” he said.
A few yards away, there is another waste bin which has already got damaged. The bin was squeezed and now can contain little garbage. More importantly, pedestrians were found less interested to drop garbage into the bin for its present shape. There is another bin on the footpaths in front of Grihayan Bhaban at Segunbagicha under DSCC which got damaged and lost its original shape.
Barely one and a half years ago, a trash bin was installed on the footpath in front of office of Executive Engineer, Mirpur Division of Public Works Department on Darussalam road at Mirpur-1 as part of Dhaka’s two city corporations’ bid to make the city a clean one.
Visiting the spot recently, the UNB correspondents found no waste bin there, only the iron stand standing for which the footpaths are getting dirty once again as there are two shops, including a tea-stall, on the footpath.
Abdur Rahim along with his friend, Bipul Saha, was taking tea at the tea-stall the other day. “I used to drop garbage into the bin after its installation here. It was a good decision to improve city’s waste management. But one day I found no bin here except the iron-built stand,” Rahim told UNB. “It has been stolen. But I thought the city corporation will replace it with another. But I find no sign yet to replace it,” he said.
A few yards away, there is another waste bin which has already got damaged. The bin was squeezed and now can contain little garbage. More importantly, pedestrians were found less interested to drop garbage into the bin for its present shape. There is another bin on the footpaths in front of Grihayan Bhaban at Segunbagicha under DSCC which got damaged and lost its original shape.
