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Shishu Park turns risky

By Masud Hasan Khan
Watch out I Keep an eye on the small cabins In which your kids go up on the Ferris wheel
Some of the fun rides at the country's only recreation park for children — the Shishu Park in the capita] — have become obsolete and dangerous
Officials of the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) said that all the 1 1 recreational machines at the park were running two years after expiry of the safely warranty The JO-year war ranty ended in 1990 they said
Any accident because of the worn-out machines would involve fives of Innocent children. they warned
Sources at the park said on condition of anonymity that machines of at least six of these fan rides badly needed thorough overhauling and their
steel structure* replaced
Besides the moat precarious Ferri* wheel, there are flying •aucer. chair tower, electric train, merry-go-round. roller skates. trampoline, electric cars, baby bicycles, archery and flower cups at the 15-acre Shishu Park
Park source* said except for a few change* In 1990, no ma jor maintenance job waa done since opening of the park tn 1979.
They said plastic covers, metal rope*, nuts, bolts were replaced on many occasion* but the metal structure of these rides were not changed
The foot boards of some cabins on the Ferri* wheel be eame worn- out and were re placed, the sources said, but not the steel rims, the main
axle or the bearings on It.
According to sources, the DCC spend* nearly Taka 12 lakh every year for malnte nance of the machinea at the park which, they said, was too Inadequate.
'Almost all the machines here rotate* or move* Involv Ing friction. and It la very likely that these will wear and tear In time," one source at the park Mid. adding that It wa* the high time theae were replaced unfortunate Incident occurred.
A maintenance worker al the park. who requested not to be named, said that apparently all the machines looked well
"But we do not know what the condition la Inside the metal structures of these recreation rides." he said.
DCC officials suggested piece by piece maintenance of the machines and non-de-structive tests (NDT) for Identifying structural faults.
Shishu Park, which earns about Taka 60 lakh a year, is/ run by 83 staff. /
The park Is open to all fii|e days a week except on Thursday when it Is open ti> the under privileged chlldrejh free of cost. On Sundays it remains closed for maintenance.
Sources at the park alsojkl-leged that about one third/ of the total earnings from the/ fun rides go straight Into /the pockets of a section of dts/hon-est employees. I
They allege that the/ employees collect cash instead of tic kets from the visitor^ who intend to take a ride
Some of the visitors do not buy tickets from the entrance for individual rides bul greesc palms of some of the unscrupulous employees of the park depriving DCC of the
Entrance fee to the Shlshu Park is Taika three and for each fun ride It taken taka two