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Rajshahi now a dirty city

From Abdul Wadood
RAJSHAHI, July 16; Markets and dustbins in the city have become permanent sources of environmental pollution and public nuisance.
This Is because of not cleaning the wastes timely.
Both unconsciousness of the city-dwellers and negligence ol the workers of the city corporation in doing their duties properly are the reasons benind such a situation.
Sources in the concerned department of Rajshahi City Cor-poration said, most of the citydwellers do not use dustbins properly.
"Usually we follow a timetable for collecting waste products from the dustbins. People are advised to follow It. But they do not do it." said on RCC official. The city-dwellers put their waste-products throughout the day in dustbins making these permanent sources of pollution. "More painful is that they do not put their waste products inside the dustbins, rather they throw these wastes from a distance place scattering these Inside and outside the dustbins." the RCC official said. Stray dogs, cats, crows and tokais are also responsible for spreading waste products around the dustbins.
On the other hand manv city-dwellers allege that RCC workers usually do not follow their time-table properly and sometimes, especially in the residential areas, they do not collect waste products regularly. They let the dustbins become full of wastes which are rottened evolving bad smell. They suggested to clean the dustbins in the residential areas at least twice daily at the morning and afternoon.
When contacted, shop-owners and clients demanded that markets, especially vegetable
markets, fish markets, poultry markets and meat markets should at least be cleaned four limes a day at dawn, in late morning, in early afternoon and In tne evening, to maintain minimum cleanliness and healthy environment in the markets.
RCC authorities said in this regard, they try to clean some markets repeatedly according to demands. "But our manpower and other necessary resources are not sufficient to do so everyday and everywhere," said ari RCC official
Some city-dwellers also suggested to build more dustbins. According to RCC sources, there are 615 dustbins now in 35 wards of the city corporation area. "The number of dustbins
in sufficient enough if these are used properly." said the official
Meanwhile. Rajshahi City Corporation is considering 10 introduce "Community-based waste cleaning system.” It has already been started on trial basis in the Ward No 6. 12 and 14 and proved effective. R( ( sources said A committee is being formed with the youths of the ward headed by a community leader to do the Job. The respective Ward Commissioner is supervising the programme. The committee is motivating the people to put their waste products at the fixed places within a scheduled period of time.
Workers of the committee are collecting the waste products from the fixed places at a
fixed time ami depositing these at the nearby dustbins. RCC cleaners are carrying the wastes from the dustbins as per schedule.
Community leader Hasan Sarder of Ward No 14 said that the programme was proved to be useful. Most people were cooperating with us. A little number of people showed reluctance to follow our rules, but the number was. however, lesser, he said.
Rajshahi City Corporation has no safe devices of wastes disposal. It has recently built on incinerator in Rajshahi Medical College Hospital premises for disposal of hospital wastes. This Incinerator will also be used for disposal of special types of wastes, RCC sources said.
City Mayor Mijanur Rahman Mlnu said that they were going to build a waste treatment plant within a very short period of time with the assistance of UNICEF for producing organise fertilisers from the waste products. 'This will help us in safe disposal of waste products and at the same time help earn some money through sale of the fertilisers." he said.
More than 200 metric tonnes of waste products are depsltcil everyday in the city corporation area.
RCC has 13 trucks and trollies and 85 vans to collect and carry the waste products to the disposal sites. Besides, there are two rickshaw-vans in each ward. One hundred twenty-two cleaners work along the VIP rounds and nine workers including five drain cleaners and two road sweepers work In each word.
The existing manpower and vehicles are not sufficient to ‘meet the Increasing demands. RCC source said.