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Garbage on the way of visitors

Staff Correspondent
Throughout the month of February, a garbage laden path was what visitors had to walk over to enter the Suhrawardy Udyan portion of the Amar Ekushey Granthamela 2014.
Though the fairground was clean, the entire space from Suhrawardy Udyan's gate to the fair's entrance was strewn with litter mostly from food stalls popping up on the gate's right side since the fair's February 1 inauguration.
The condition was made worse as hawkers, beggars and marketers offering leaflets took up position at the fair's entrance and adjoining spaces.
The book fair's management committee had 50 staff to, with assistance from Dhaka South City
Corporation, clean the fairgrounds and adjacent spaces and the road from Teacher-Student Centre to Doyel Chattar.
"We clean at night but the road and park (Suhrawardy Udyan) is open to all throughout the day and hundreds of people use these places making it dirty again," Shahida Khatun, the committee's member secretary, told The Daily Star yesterday.
She said five garbage bins placed right outside the fair's entrance alongside some bamboo benches for visitors were found missing on the second day of the fair.
Scheduled to be closed to traffic during fair hours from 3:00pm to 8:30pm, the road was not always sealed off on time by law enforcers, added the director of Bangla Academy's establishment, planning and training division.
On the food stalls she said, "That portion is beyond our jurisdiction."
However, Shahida hopes that Bangla Academy would have more time next year to see how they can deal with these issues which hamper the fair's ambience.
"This year we only got about four days to prepare the Suhrawardy Udyan portion for which there were some flaws, "she said.
Bangla Academy Director General Prof Shamsuzzaman Khan claimed that the fair's condition was far better than any other, especially that of Kolkata.
"It would be impossible for any other institution to hold such an uninterrupted fair for one whole month," he said.
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Meanwhile, Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique unveiled a book titled "Bangladesh Niye" by Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Samakal Editor Golam Sarwar and state ministers Nasrul Hamid Bipu and Junaid Ahmed Polok were present.
Moreover, with only one more day to go, the fair saw the arrival of 122 books and publication ceremonies of 15 were held.