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Hasina's trip
When the news (UNB) of indian concern about separatist and militant groups' presence in our country came out in the local dailies recently, it was no surprise to anybody . After all, the past utterances of our former prime minister and presently the leader of the opposition - particularly while visiting india, US, UK & some other western countries - are still fresh in mind.
For her to get even with her political opponents, what a price we the general public are paying here & abroad. Supporters of a major political party living particularly in the US have not lagged far in burning their bridges . imagine these people going from door
to door of US Congressmen to submit applications branding our country as a Taliban / al-Qaeda nest!
However, there is high expectation from the present secular indian leadership so far Bangladesh is concerned.
Ashfaque Chowdhury
Dhaka
Raging flood
on July 27, 2004 i read in The Daily Star that the death toll due to floods was 329 and in the evening BBC Bengali Service said the number had increased up to about 394. Now it is easily conceivable how fiercely the flood was raging on. The water was flowing over the danger level in all the rivers. Two- thirds of the country are inundated, almost three crore people are affected. The people are homeless, marooned. As shown in a newspaper, a woman was shifting her mud-oven onto the roof, the roof of a corrugated tin made house, cattle and human beings are living together; mother is bathing her child in the poisonous water( i wonder whether they drink the same water), a child is crying in waist-deep water; a woman is holding her beloved pet tightly to her bosom( perhaps the only companion of her life). Diarrhoea is spreading fast, which, the doctors say, is supposed to come after the flood. Life is under water. Life is insecure. Life is no life.
However, support and help are
assured. Everyone is trying. Money is being subscribed. Food is being given. The schools and the colleges are giving shelter. The government is looking confident of its strength without any foreign help. Still the UK has come up with Tk 110 crore, The UN is suggesting help in many ways. But we must make it sure that the aid reaches the right person, we have to make it clear that the cruel people do not cash in on the misery of the affected. You will see lots of banners around the city like "Help the Flood Affected". Be sure about them because this country is home to different sorts of people.
Mahfuzul Haque
Eng Dept, DU
Flood victims and the
young generation
i'm a 20-year old Bangladeshi girl, studying in a private university in Dhaka . For the last couple of days, i was trying to set up a flood relief booth in my university campus and established one. As a matter of regret, few students responded. if this is the condition of today's young generation, i wonder how far we people can go .
These people are spending a lot of money in fast food and other staffs. They are having fun, but not aware of social responsibilities.
Neela
On e-mail
Mohakhali flyover
Mohakhali flyover is nearing completion and expected to be ready for traffic before the year is out. it will be touted as a great achievement in wisdom and capability of the present government. Regressing back, one feels it will ease the traffic burden to and from ViP Road and Dhanmondi towards ZiA, and provide this route the maximum benefit. May be it will be easier for the bigwigs who after a late night party tend to rush to the airport at the last minute, often even managing to hold the flight if it is Biman's! Apart from them the honourable ministers even if they are nearing the country mark in numbers; can either have the traffic stopped or be piloted by a noise making police escort. For that level of
hierarchy the flyover makes no difference; either way they create their right of passage!
Looking dispassionately, the flyover on a very crowded crossing only eases the burden for two traffic steams out of six. Assuming that both these streams take only the right turn coming from ZiA's direction or the left turn going to ZiA, the maximum imaginable benefit is for thirty three percent of the road users. However, if we realistically consider the density and diversity between all the six traffic streams the statistics is heavily loaded against the users of the flyover. Add to that the rickshaws and other slow moving under-powered transport the maximum level of beneficiaries may
not be even ten percent of the total traffic using the routes served by the junction.
So who does it benefit? With the proliferation of traffic both in quality and type on this route i believe we will be back to square one in one or two years at most. Regarding avoiding the railway crossing going to ZiA and points before and beyond, let us not forget the railroad crossing after the Naval HQ. The bottleneck here too is increasing and an flyover here would have been more justified than the glorified Mohakhali structure.
But then we are not to question why; for may wise men have deemed the necessity of the Mohakhali flyover.
A Mansoor
Dhaka