Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq has blamed the mosquito population inside people's houses for the chikungunya outbreak. He claimed the viral disease was spreading fast because of the mosquito populations inside households, rather than those growing in the city's drainage system.
Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq today pledged to rid traffic congestion in the Gabtoli bus terminal area by December 30. He made the promise while speaking to reporters following talks with leaders and workers of bus association, reports Bangla daily Prothom Alo.
Mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Annisul Huq expressed his hope that the wholesale market of Karwan Bazar would be shifted to Jatrabari and Gabtoli within few months.
If entrusted with the management of city’s storm drainage system, Dhaka city corporations would play a role in resolving the acute urban flooding and water logging problem in the capital city, said Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq today.
The two mayors of Dhaka city corporations have been awarded the status of full minister. The cabinet division issued a gazette notification in this regard today, said Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam.
Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq today compared Dhaka’s state to that of an ailing patient in the intensive care unit of a hospital. “Dhaka’s present condition is like a patient in the ICU of a hospital,” he told a roundtable meeting at a hotel in Dhaka, Bangla daily Prothom Alo reports.
The High Court today directed the authorities concerned to properly fix the covers of manholes and sewerage lines in Dhaka within 15 days. It asked the mayors of Dhaka North and South City Corporations and the managing director of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) to submit a report after complying with the order on October 13.
The fire service yesterday started a probe into the Karwan Bazar fire that gutted 186 shops on May Day. Jahurul Amin, deputy director (operations) of Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence, leads the five-member committee, said Brig Gen Ali Ahmed Khan, director general of the fire service.
Mayor Annisul Huq wants Rajuk and Wasa under the jurisdiction of the city corporations to get rid of the city's water logging problem. The mayor can do nothing to address the water logging as Wasa digs canals and maintains storm-water drainage system, the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayor said yesterday at a programme organised by Bangladesh University.
Policymakers would do well to pay heed to the call of the DNCC mayor to bring Rajuk and Wasa under the jurisdiction of the city corporations in order to tackle the city's worsening waterlogging problem. The mayor's demand has strong rationale as the city corporations have no control over departments such as Wasa, Rajuk, Police and other service providers in the capital.
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