The excruciating Dhaka

My life has always been confined to my dwelling in this city. Prolonged violence, crime, inadequate grounds and other shortcomings of the metropolis are the reasons behind this incarceration. My school is situated at Dhanmondi and I regularly travel from Nikunja to that place. While coming back, I always have to encounter massive congestion of traffic caused by the illegal parking of numerous vehicles beside the curb of the sidewalks of the "national highway". This reduces traffic flow and later clogs up the whole thoroughfare. Invaluable hours have to be wasted for the clearance of the congestion. Moreover, the so-called "national highway" lacks security.

Recently, a new era of crime on the streets of Dhaka has taken birth; criminals (mainly the youth of this generation) go mugging pedestrians even on the "national highway", using mace like substance to immobilize their target and to their amusement they sometimes employ violence. These felons team up with the local cab and CNG drivers to dupe the vulnerable into their trap.

I urge the government to implement initiatives to reduce load shedding, to implement schemes to construct new parks and lakes, to adopt new policies for controlling traffic, to extensively proclaim interdicts of parking on highways and to deploy armed forces on highways to protect people.