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Civic amenities quite inadequate

From Our Correspondent
SHERPUR. Dec 21 : Civic amenities are absent in district headquarters causing immense suffering to more than one lakh inhabitants.
The town bears the trauma of narrow uneven roads with innumerable potholes, clogged drains, littered garbage, many mosquito breeding centres, inadequate street lights, fre quent load-shedding, insufficient water supply, lack of sanitation and some other problems.
The narrow roads and lanes of the town frequently experience traffic jam.
Most parts of the roads with numerous potholes become flooded and filthy after a slight rainfall. Moreover, clogged drains and insufficient street lights multiply sufferings of the residents.
There arc 315 lightposts In the pour a area but 40 per cent of those have no bulb.
Owners of mills and factories alleged that their produc lion had decreased by 50 per cent due to intermittent power breakdown. Many inhabitants complained that their electric and electronic appliances become Inoperative because of power disruption and voltage fluctuations.
Some of the residents complained that their areas plunge Into darkness almost everyday after sun set allowing the culprits better scope to indulge in anti-social activities.
luwk of proper maintenance and repair aggravated the situation, the town residents Infor med
The town was first electri-
fied in 1964 but the pace of development in this regard is very slow.
On the other hand, unauthorised electricity consumption by a section of people here has become a matter of serious concern
Wide scale pilferage of electricity has contributed to the increased systems loss which rose to 40 per cent under some grids, it Is learnt. Some places on the outskirts of the town are yet to be electrified and some old lines need reinstallation.
■ One can hardly notice dustbins around the town. The people are to dump their household waster here and there which pollutes the environment.
The authorities arc seemingly Indifferent to the cleanliness of the town. Insecticides sprayed in an unscientific methods sometimes prove in-effccllve.
Water supply Is also scanty. The existing number of hand operative tubewells is 508 but only half of these are functioning properly, the rest lie totally Inoperative. The Public Health Engineering Department source said that fund shortage la delaying the scheme of adequate waler supply. On the other hand some hand tubewclls have, become inoperative as underground water level fell abnormally. porirashava sources said.
Lack of public lavatories force many people who come for various purposes in the dta trtet town from rural areas to defecate in dwelling areas
causing environmental pollu-
The daily markets are in a sorry state. Shops have been built haphazardly congesting the access.of the people. Even the New Market under pourashava is suffering from manifold problems.
The drains in and around the market have becomes silted up causing water logging in the area. The narrow space before New Market causes traffic Jam frequently. The housing problem of the government officials is also acute.
Though Sherpur was made a district eight years back, district level offices are yet to be set up here.
The implementation of development projects and other administrative activities is being hampered due to the absence of district level offices in Sherpur.
Some district level development programmes and their executions are still being controlled from the former district headquarters al Jamalpur.
Bui it has now become very difficult to supervise and control all the activities from this single unit.
Most of the lime, the NWI) channels remain out of order and offer busy tones which create Inconveniences to the subscribers
Complaints in this regard to the higher authorities have be come futile to the utter frustration of the subscribers.