Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) emphasises the issues of waste management, controlling billboard and traffic jam as the first steps towards implementing its plan to make a green, clean and livable city.
Mayor Annisul Huq held a meeting at his Banani residence on Tuesday evening with reputed personalities of civil society, sharing ideas for a Green Dhaka.
Urban Planner Professor Nazrul Islam, Architect Iqbal Habib, Professor Shamsul Haque, Architect Mobashar Hossain, World Bank representatives, among others, attended the meeting, says a press release yesterday.
The meeting proposed to give more concentration on the waste management to make the system more environmentally friendly.
Moreover, the meeting decided to send letters containing dos and don’ts to private companies and other organisations along with several other related issues.
The meeting also proposed recommendations to build U-loop at the city’s busiest intersections to reduce the city’s traffic congestion.
The discussants proposed to grow trees on rooftops of every public, private, commercial and residential buildings, apartments and along with their boundary walls.
Annisul Huq at the meeting acknowledged that there were some minor flaws in the city polls but “my election expenditure was within the limit set by the EC.”
The DNCC newly elected mayor said this in reply to a question from journalists on a report of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) after the inauguration of a campaign of Action Aid titled Safe City, Women Without Fear at Chhayanat Bhaban at Dhanmondi yesterday.
“I do not know on what basis the TIB prepared the report. However, my election expenditure was within the limit,” Annisul said.
He said development work is going on in the city and there will be a huge change in next one to two years.
The playgrounds in the city would be freed from illegal occupation soon, the mayor asserted.
Earlier, the Action Aid campaign for safe city for women was inaugurated in Dhaka along with 20 cities in the world.
Anisul Huq said repression of women has increased in the recent times. This type of problem would have to be faced by creating awareness among people of all strata, he added.
According to Action Aid statistics, 97% women consider sexual harassment as violence. 81% of the victims of such harassment fear to seek assistance from police.
Besides, 47.5% women suffer from insecurity to travel by public transport and walk on roads and open places in the city.
Moderated by Action Aid Country Director Farah Kabir, the inaugural ceremony was addressed by DNCC Mayor Anisul Huq, Department of Women Affairs Director General Shahin Ahmed Chowdhury and Dhaka University Women and Gender Studies Professor Tania Haque.
