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Recover city canals to save Dhaka

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Published: 14:18, 20 November 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Recover city canals to save Dhaka

The filled-in canals are a major cause of the excessive waterlogging in Dhaka city.

Earlier, the canals in Dhaka city were used to transport goods across the city and additional city waters were drained through the canals. But the city is facing waterlogging as those canals and rivers are filled now.

Illegal occupying and dumping wastage into the canals blocked normal flow of the city canals. As a result, the city dwellers suffer most. The city becomes unfit to live.   

Couple of organizations on Saturday organized a human-chain programme demanding occupying free canals and exemplary punishment of canal grabbers. The speakers in the programme said that if the authority could not save the rivers and canals in the city then Dhaka will be a reservoir-less city. The underground water level will fall down gradually. Temperature rise and others environmental crisis including would be created. A far-reaching impact would be seen in normal life.

The speakers in the programme also demanded normal water flow recovering the canals in Dhaka. Besides, they also demanded exemplary punishment canal grabbers.

Basically, the Indifference and ignorance is another reason of destroying Dhaka's canal. Besides, canal filling and grabbing by local influential persons have continued their occupying process. The city canals are being lost due to restless activities of land grabbers and unplanned urbanization. The canals are being shrunk day by day.

Although the government's eviction drive plays an important role against land grabbers but the recovered lands go under grabbing again due to lack of coordination. 

A little rain brings waterlogging in Dhaka city. Ankle deep waterlogging is a regular matter in city streets and roads. Even enters into houses, shops in many areas of the city. The normal life hampered due to the waterlogging. Besides, traffic jam also been created for the rain water in Dhaka. As a result, the city dwellers suffer most.

If the authority could make a clear way recovering city canals and rivers then the rain water can be drained easily. If the authority fail to do it then it will be tough to live here in the capital. Grabbing canals is an illegal activity but nobody cares the law. The concerned authorities have to take strict action to solve the crisis.

We expect that proper planning will be taken place to remove waterlogging to save Dhaka city. Appropriate action against land grabbers and exemplary punishment are must side by side recovering occupied canals and rivers. Practice of wastage dumping in canals and reservoir should be stopped. Besides, steps should be taken so that new installation could not take place filling canals. 



risingbd/Dhaka/Nov 19, 2017/Ali Nowsher/Nasim

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