CCC plans to free footpaths from hawkers
Says Chittagong mayor
Chittagong mayor AJM Nasir Uddin yesterday said Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) has embarked upon a plan to free citys footpaths from hawkers and street vendors after Eid-ul-Azha, reports BSS from Chittagong. He said the CCC in a series of meetings with hawkers leaders came into a consensus that hawkers can ferry their goods on the marked spots of the footpaths and walkways after 5 pm, when there remains thin attendance of pedestrians and traffic on the roads.
We will refurbish the footpaths and walkways by setting up tiles on them and issue identity cards and colourful umbrellas to nearly 15-20 thousand hawkers, the mayor said this while exchanging views with the journalists of Chittagong Press Club (CPC).
The mayor said no hawkers would be allowed to occupy footpaths beyond the fixed time in order to free the footpaths from hawkers.
Nasir also commented that all public transports in the city would be brought under a single management in order to stop unhealthy competition in transport sector.
We will take steps to set up world class passenger sheds at a maximum distance from the intersections of the roads and then we can force the public transport sector to maintain discipline, the mayor asserted.
Outlining the importance of ensuring civic amenities to the city residents, Nasir said the whole Chittagong city would be brought under Light-Emitting Diode (LED) lighting within next year.
Sixty kilometres of roads will be brought under the project within next three months while 120 kilometres would be covered within the stipulated time, he added.
Referring to the Prime Ministers approval of Taka 5617 crore project for removal of water-logging problem, CCC mayor said the nagging water-logging problem in the city would be resolved through strong coordination among different utility service organisations and concerned departments.
CPC president Kolim Sarwar presided over the function while Director of Rupali Bank Abu Sufian, former CPC president Ali Abbas, president of Chittagong Union of Journalists (CUJ) Reaz Haidar Chowdhury, CUJ general secretary (GS) Mohammad Ali, CPC GS Shoklal Das, CPC joint-secretary Chowdhury Farid and GS of Chittagong Journalists Cooperatives Housing Society Hasan Ferdous, among others, addressed it.
