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Monipur, Kazipara, Barobagh Area

Roads that go under water in little rain

Helemul Alam
Only half a kilometre to cross, but the rickshaw took about an hour to take Labiba Rahman to Monipur School from her house in Barobagh thanks to traffic gridlock.
Labiba is often late at school because of traffic congestion caused by dilapidated condition and narrowness of the road.
"Nobody would wish to come here second time after rain as the road goes under about one-foot-deep water. But I'm helpless as my daughter's a student of this school," says Latifur Rahman, Labiba's guardian, in utter disgust.
Not only the road in front of Monipur School, most of the roads in Monipur, Kazipara and Barobagh are in very miserable state and rather exist to cause suffering to the residents.
Waterlogging is a common scenario here which leads to further damage of the roads within a short time of construction or repair, locals say.
Khaled Gazi, a shopkeeper in Barobagh, said the road was repaired only three years ago but could not survive more than a
Momin Sheikh, another resident of Barobagh, said the road behind the Grameen Bank was constructed five years ago and persisting waterlogging damaged it within a short time.
The potholes and bumps have turned so severe on the
roads in Barobagh that rickshaw-pullers dare not come here even if offered higher fare, comment Surjamukhi Sarkar and Nusrat Jahan Tithi, first-year students of Mirpur University College.
"Most of the time after rain we're forced to walk on submerged roads," Nusrat added.
As there is no sewerage line in these areas, many house owners have connected their sewerage lines directly to the DCC pipe drains, officials say.
They add 80 to 90 percent houses of Lalkuthi, Paikpara, Pirerbagh, Kazipara, Shewrapara and Monipur have connected their sewerage lines to the DCC pipes, which get clogged fast and overflow during rains. Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority should set up sewerage lines there to remove waterlogging, they suggest.
Ifteknarul Islam, a second-year student at Gazipur College, said the Barobagh roaas came under digging several times by the Utilities service providers but were never repaired.
Most of the roads in Kazipara, especially from Kazipara bus stand to Maikwala Mosque, are also in a worse condition and causing huge public suffering.
Anis, who has recently undergone a surgery on the neck, said, "These roads are a nightmare for me. In the rickshaw 1 always keep standing to save my neck from convulsions."
Commissioner of Ward-14 and acting commissioner of ward 13 Abdul Kader said although Tk 50 lakh was allocated for each of the wards, he did not receive a single penny in the last fiscal year.
The commissioner said they have submitted a proposal of Ik 1.5 crore to repair the roads of each ward but Dhaka City Corporation may allocate Tk 70 lakh instead in the current FY.
An executive engineer of Zone-7 said they have already submitted a proposal for Tk 8.5 crore to repair roads under wards 9,10,11,12,1314, 16and41.
Every ward will get Tk 1 crore on an average to do the work, he added.
"If we get the green light, we'll float tenders for the repair/ he said. "We are expecting to start the work next month."