Joynal Abedin Khan :
Hundreds of people took to the streets in city’s Demra, Manda, Bhasantek, Jatrabari areas on Friday demanding uninterrupted water supply to save them from sufferings.
The agitated residents who are without water for weeks carried empty pitchers and jars and blocked main thoroughfares disrupting movement of vehicular traffic for half an hour.
They agreed to lift road blockade in Mridhabari area on assurance that their problem would be resolved soon, said Abni Sankar Kar, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Police Jatrabari Police Station.
The sufferers also gheraoed different offices of local councilors in capital in last few days, local sources said.
The newly elected two mayors and local lawmakers tried in vain to pacify the thirsty inhabitants and
faced their wrath and their failure to resolve the chronic water scarcity in the area.
The agitated people said that they moved the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA), the lone government agency entrusted with the task of maintaining water supply in the metropolis for setting up a deep tubewell, but could not make any progress in this regard during the last few months.
“This type of demonstration by city dwellers for water supply is a very common scene which hardly creates any impact. The situation turns acute in dry season,” said a high official of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC).
Hundreds of people took to the streets in city’s Demra, Manda, Bhasantek, Jatrabari areas on Friday demanding uninterrupted water supply to save them from sufferings.
The agitated residents who are without water for weeks carried empty pitchers and jars and blocked main thoroughfares disrupting movement of vehicular traffic for half an hour.
They agreed to lift road blockade in Mridhabari area on assurance that their problem would be resolved soon, said Abni Sankar Kar, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Police Jatrabari Police Station.
The sufferers also gheraoed different offices of local councilors in capital in last few days, local sources said.
The newly elected two mayors and local lawmakers tried in vain to pacify the thirsty inhabitants and
faced their wrath and their failure to resolve the chronic water scarcity in the area.
The agitated people said that they moved the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA), the lone government agency entrusted with the task of maintaining water supply in the metropolis for setting up a deep tubewell, but could not make any progress in this regard during the last few months.
“This type of demonstration by city dwellers for water supply is a very common scene which hardly creates any impact. The situation turns acute in dry season,” said a high official of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC).
