Town turns a waste dumping ground
Heap of garbage, a major source of environmental pollution, has been piled up almost everywhere in the town in absence of regular cleanliness drive by the authorities concerned, making people’s lives intolerable.
The town has now turned into breeding ground for mosquito as heap of scattered garbage was piled up all around in the municipality, said locals.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. As most of the trash bins remain overflowed, townspeople keep on dumping waste on the street corners.
M Iqbalur Rahim, lawmaker of Dinajpur-3 constituency, several times at different meetings expressed his distress over non-cooperation from the municipality.
During a recent visit to different areas in the municipality, this correspondent found piles of garbage at Kalitola-Barabandar road, near Dinajpur Kotwali Police Station, Modern mor, Munsipara, Basuniapatty and various other places of Dinajpur Satellite town.
Besides, heaps of garbage left Rail Bazarhat to Chhoto Gurgola and Boro Gurgola road much narrower.
Due to this, transport movement on the roads is being disrupted, said townspeople.
On the other hand, many waste bins were also found broken in the town.
Kanchan Ghosh, a resident of Ketripara area, said it is quite impossible for the pedestrians to pass through the way due to bad odour from the heap of garbage.
It is also posing a health risk to humans, he said.
The situation turns worse in the area during rainy season, said Kanchan Ghosh.
Another resident Apurpa Roy of Kalitola area said as the municipality’s staffers have not been collecting garbage for over two months, the area has become a breeding ground for mosquito and fly.
He further said “It seems that our grievances have so far fallen on deaf ears of the municipality authority.”
The area of Dinajpur municipality is 24.5 square kilometre. It has been split into 12 wards. There are four cleaners for each ward.
If the cleaners do their duties every day, there would not be any waste in Dinajpur town, but they skip off their duties in absence of strong monitoring of mayor.
Mayor of Dinajpur municipality Syed Zahangir Alam said he would look into the issue seriously.