Cleanliness aspiration of DSCC mayor
In many cities
of the world the cleaning effort starts after midnight. The bottom line is this time we really want the DSCC mayor to be successful
in his efforts to offer us
a clean Dhaka
It is a dream of Dhaka city dwellers that they are living in a clean city day in and day out with its solid and liquid wastes properly disposed off and the footpaths free for walking particularly in the busy intersections and marketplaces of the capital.
But in the morning hours when people come out from their homes to go to their workplaces, they are presented with very unwelcome scenarios everywhere. The roads and thoroughfares are still dirty with previous days dirt. Even at 10 in the morning, it is usually seen trucks poorly loaded with solid garbage moving in uncovered conditions through the roads with heaped up garbage falling on the roads. The foul smell and the ugly
sights are things with which no city dweller wants to start the day.
There are places in the capital such as Taltala in Kafrul where one finds overflowing metal dustbins all through the day. Before the last two city corporations election the city dwellers saw mayoral candidates campaigning with sweeps on their hands cleaning the streets of Dhaka. But the people probably sensed that once elected to office, they would forget what they committed to them.
And exactly that happened as the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) remains still in its previous conditions.
That is why we are very doubtful about the success of the DSCC Mayors declaration of year 2016 as the year of cleanliness for his area. As far as cleanliness is concerned, his area is worse than the northern part of the city. We hope this time he really means business; it will not be just be a mere tall talk with purpose of creating stunt. According to the plan he has chalked out, he will create a secondary transfer system of garbage in every ward; set up 50 public toilets in 2016; create a hotline for receiving complaints from people and put in place a team tracker system to monitor the work of the cleaners. While all these programmes are good enough, the work for everyday cleaning must be finished much earlier than before 7 as has been planned. In many cities of the world the cleaning effort starts after midnight. The bottom line is this time we really want the DSCC mayor to be successful in his efforts to offer us a clean Dhaka.
