The seriously aggravated condition of city streets is a source of immense suffering to city dwellers. It takes on a new severity during the rainy season when roads and streets are often waterlogged. It is in this season utility service providers dig up roads to install pipes of different sizes. All too predictably, those dug-up trenches are not filled up in time and so the dire straits the roads are being left in and circuitous traffic movement.
As we know it, the remit for carrying out repairs of dug-up roads is the DCC's. When utility service providers dig up a city street, they do so after notifying the city corporation along with a payment made to put the roads back in shape. Therefore, the responsibility lies clearly with the city corporation to repair and look after any street that has been dug up or damaged for whatever reasons. Nevertheless, the city bosses' lackadaisical attitude to their given obligations results in inordinate delay which further aggravates the road conditions.
Speculations are rife that delay often leads to expensive repairs making way for bigger misappropriation of funds. It is indeed baffling that some people court rundown roads to spin money when those are causing suffering to public in numerous ways, including accidents at times. This gross lack of social commitment will have to be decisively overcome.
When the historical city of Dhaka was bifurcated by this government for the purpose of setting up two city corporations, we were told that it was necessary for better management. What we are seeing instead is greater indifference and total lack of public accountability. Therefore, we would like to ask how unelected representatives can be relied on indefinitely to look after the city of a burgeoning population. There can be no greater compulsion for holding election to t
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