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City gets back its snarl-ups

RAFIQ HASAN And SHAHEEN MOLLAH
The city has started getting back its normal life of traffic jam abd bustle as the weeklong security blankets for 13th Saarc Summit in Dhaka was withdrawn yesterday evening following formal departure of all the participating heads of the government.
On the occasion of the summit, the city witnessed unprecedented security measures with around 30,000-strong forces comprising army personnel, police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) guarding round the clock.
Movements of vehicles and people were restricted in front of all summit venues and the places where dignitar- ies stayed and visited.
“We are withdrawing the security forces from the city gradually,” Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner S M Mizanur Rahman said, adding that the usual security check posts on the important crossings will remain.
The additional barricades that had been put on the occasion of the summit have already been removed from most of the places.
The city roads returned to their normal busy condition in the afternoon as thousands of vehicles started plying immediately after the withdrawal of restrictions of the movement of vehicles on the VIP road from Zia International Airport to Shahbag after 1:00pm yesterday.
Heavy rush of the people was seen in three major inter-district bus terminals -- Mohakhali, Sayedabad and Gabtoli -as people started arriving from outside the capital.
City's largest wholesale kitchen market at Karwan Bazar, that had been closed for five days due to security reasons for the Saarc summit, also started coming back to life since last evening. The traders expect full resumption of business from today.
“I opened the shop at noon after 12 days as I went to my village home in Feni on November 2, hearing that the market would be closed on the occasion of Saarc summit,” said Mohammad Jamal Uddin, a shop owner at Karwan Bazar.
Trading in the wholesale kitchen market drastically fell following the Eid-ul-Fitr in the first week of this month. The market's closure due to the Saarc summit added to the situation.
“We asked the suppliers to send as much goods as possible because all our godowns are empty following the two weeks' closure,” said Mujibur Rahman, manager of Chowdhury Banijyalay in Karwan Bazar.
With fresh supply, the price of the essentials that had shot up during the last few days, also started becoming normal since yesterday afternoon.
The private business houses and shopping malls beside important roads that were closed for the summit also reopened last night.
The footpaths on the city's major thoroughfares and places near markets that remained free during the summit, started getting reoccupied by the vendors and hawkers.
Classes at most of the city's educational institutions also resumed while many others will open from the next week after long Ramadan and Eid vacations.
To observe the colourful illumination of important buildings and road crossings and the cleanness of roads and footpaths especially at Sheraton crossing, Sonargaon crossing, Bijoy Swarani, Airport road, and Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, was a delighting experience for many city dwellers.