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To the Interior
What is the population of our dear old Dhaka city right at this moment ? We don't think anyone knows It is one thing to work out a growth rate over a longish time frame, well past — and quite another to know precisely the acceleration of population per day per dau in the fashion they express the acceleration of falling bodies tn the schools
This situation accounts for nobody being very interested in knowing anything about this city's — or for that matter nation s — social parameters to ar^r degree of precision. In the absence of that no economy and no technology can be appropriate, no education and no idea of the challenges facing us and of the ways out can be realistic and effective. It is said, by the turn erf the century, the city may have a population of one crore. What will that mean to the city?
How much water will have to be supplied and where will that come from and how much electricity? Where will the garbage heaped up by such a population be moved and now? Is the city pre-Pred for that? Or the state and its government?
the crawl-in shanties living the rail tracks entering the city is any indication to go by. most people in the city will have a sub-human life then. Ana most of the city area will be stinking slums.
This nightmarish urban scenario would become real as the villages will keep on dying. The only way to make a future for Dhaka as a city — which is what a pocket of concentrated human activity leading to protean production of both the material and aesthetic-intellectual kind — is stopping all the blood of the body from racing to the head? Development must be spread wide and thiri so that people will be needed to travel only walking miles to their place of work. Let the thana towns grow, aqd the district towns too. And most Important of all. let the villages live again not only enabled by villagers working in nearby mills but also boosted by better agricultural innovations and practices serviced as they must be by village machine and tool shops employing villagers.
Recently a reader in Sherpur made in our Opinion column a very strong plea for stopping the unending procession of rural destitute to the capital city. She laid special emphasis on the dangers of cultural degeneration that the overnight urbanisation of the village poor is setting in motion, harming the whole of our people — both urban and rural — and their whole future. Enable them to stay where they have been for generations by taking the light industries to the interior, she says.
The case specifically made by the correspondent was that of the garments industry which is worked mainly by women — the millennia old preservers of man's culture and the home and family. Don't disturb her. don't drag her to the city slums or push her out Into street-walling. Let her earn staying In her traditional family home and everything will be saved.
We support the plea as we believe that only through moving most of our labour-intensive Industries two of our very expensive achievements can be justified. Any point in Bangladesh can now be reached from the capital in less than a day's time — thanks to the development in surface communication. Then again rural electrification has proved one of the rare success stories of the post-independence Bangladesh Why do we need power in the villages if not for giving the villages the power of turning machines? What for this ranullcation of metalled roads and network of waterways if not for reaching materials to points of manufacturing strewn all over the land and returning the manufactures to their markets?
Spare Dhaka its cancerous growth and let them live in their village homes a human life. Make the industries go to the Interior.