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67 roads renamed on plaque only

HelemulAlam
The names of 67 roads after freedom fighters and language movement heroes are still being neglected in correspondence and daily use as the authorities concerned have not taken proper steps to ensure use of the names.
Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) renamed these roads and streets in over last three years to honour the great heroes of the soil for their immense contribution to the cause of the country, but most shops, households and offices, even a few government ones, on these roads are not using the changed names.
It has been six years since the Outer Circular Road from Moghbazar to Mouchak was renamed Selina Parveen Road after the lone woman journalist killed in 1971 by the Pakistani occupation forces, but the name is yet to find a place in the signboards of various establishments on that road.
T he office of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the chief of which is veteran freedom fighter Col (retd) Oli Ahmed, Is located at one end of the road near Moghbazar foot over-bridge. A few offices and shops mention the new name of the road in their addresses but not the party office.
LDP Office Secretary Shahadat Hossain Selim told Ilie Daily Star that they did not know their office was on this road.
"We do not know that our office is on Selina Parveen Road. I thought the nearby Doctor's Lane was renamed Selina Parveen Road," he said.
Sumon Zahid, only son of martyr Selina Parveen, complained that the authorities concerned have not taken any effective initia live to establish the name.
He said he had sent three letters to the LDP president, requesting him to change their office
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address but did not get any response. "I also made similar requests to the authorities of several educational institutions situated on the road but nothing changed," he said.
Many government offices including those of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd and Desa also do not use the new name of the road as their address, Sumon said.
He alleged that even the DCC, which itself renamed the road, is not issuing trade licences or renewing them under the new address. "I myself have found that sweetmeat shop Rasa in Nahar market renewed its trade licence using the old address," he said.
Most holdings on Bir Uttam CR Dutta Road from Kantabon
crossing to Sonargaon crossing via Hatirpool (renamed after the commander of sector-4 of the Liberation War) are still using the old name of the road. Similar picture was found in case of Bir Uttam Kazi Nuruzzaman Road, the link road between Russel Square and Sonargaon crossing renamed after the sector-7 commander.
Except for a few cases, a better picture was seen in case of Bir Uttam MA Rabb Road from Science Laboratory to the BDRgateinJigatola.
Ekramul Islam, a shop owner on Kazi Nuruzzaman Road, said it is difficult to change a name that has been in use for the last 30 years. He suggested that the authorities should rather name new roads
after the great heroes.
Md Saidur Rahman Khan, taxation officer for zone-5 of DCC, however said they are strict about the use of the new address while renewing or issuing new trade licences.
In most cases people are reluctant to use the new addresses because of the familiarity of the old road names. It will take time to establish the new names of these roads, he said.
Syed Ehsanul Huda, a dealer of Dhaka Phone on MA Rabb Road, reacted sharply when asked why he does not use the new name of the road. "Why will I use the new name? I have known this as Dhanmondi-2 road since my boyhood, why should I change it all of a sudden?" he said.