It has been repeatedly pointed out that lack of coordination among the various government implementing agencies is not only taking huge toll on the public money but is also compounding the sufferings of people, instead of mitigating them. Yet these agencies fail to show up good result in this regard.
The capital Dhaka is the worst victim of this lack of coordination . Here a street in the neighbourhood does not last for even a year, but theoretically the lasting period of it should be at least 10 years. In most cases, besides the poor construction of a street, cutting of the road by the other utility service agencies renders it unfit for use within a year. Every year, city dwellers witness repairing work of either sewerage line or water supply line in almost each of the city’s streets.
Even big or mega projects are not spared by the absence of this vital coordination. According to a report published in this newspaper yesterday, Dhaka Power Distribution Company (DPDC) began to dig the roads of Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover area, just after one month of their repairing. This has increased sufferings of people in general, not to mention the wastage of the precious government fund.
The perpetual lack of coordination among these relevant utility service agencies raises the question whether they love this country. Otherwise they would have been sincere in delivering their duties; brought together the plans of each agency involved and implemented their individual projects in a well coordinated fashion. This absence of coordination prompts people to think if the service agencies go with their usual way just to create sources of unscrupulous income.
However, the coordination problem is so pervasive and persisting for so long a time that it should not be taken very lightly because this poor country hardly able to make things correct in this regard every year. And utility service agencies are there to ease sufferings of people not compounding them. It is now time that policy makers at the top level of the state should come down heavily on the relevant authorities to hold the utility service agencies accountable for their negligence in delivering their duties.
It is not only absence of coordination, the implementing agencies also take unusually long time and go far beyond the original timeframe of a project. The Moghbazar-Mouchak Flyover Project is a glaring example of it.
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Editor : M. Shamsur Rahman
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Editor : M. Shamsur Rahman
Published by the Editor on behalf of Independent Publications Limited at Media Printers, 446/H, Tejgaon I/A, Dhaka-1215.
Editorial, News & Commercial Offices : Beximco Media Complex, 149-150 Tejgaon I/A, Dhaka-1208, Bangladesh. GPO Box No. 934, Dhaka-1000.