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Staff Reporter

Mayor of the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) Sadeque Hossain Khoka said the DCC has identified a 175 roads for repair and construction in the Dhaka city.

The DCC has started its repairing and construction works of these roads. Among 175 roads, the DCC has already repaired 1,000 points. Construction and repairing works of these roads will end in March next year, he added.

The Mayor said this at a view exchange meeting with the journalists to brief about the preparation of the DCC after post-flood situation and civic amenities of the city dwellers held at Conference Room of Nagar Bhaban in the city yesterday.

Mayor said all roads of the Dhaka city are not under the control by the DCC. There are some roads in the Dhaka city, which are controlled by the Roads and Highways Department (R&HD), Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) and Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipakkha (RAJUK). "We have identified six link roads, which are not under control of the DCC," he also said.

The roads from Jatrabari to Buriganga Bridge, Banani Rail Crossing and Mirpur Mazar Road to Mirpur Bundh are under the R&HD, Gulshan-1 to Badda Link Road is under the RAJUK and Gabtali, Rayerbazar Bundh Area are under the BWDB," he added.

Preservation of manholes' covers is not only duty for DCC authority, Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) is also responsible to maintain this, Mayor said.

Saifuddin Ahmed, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the DCC, said the DCC has decentralised many things including birth registration system, revenue collection and mutation, holding tax payment and other maters for the benefit of the city dwellers.

"There are 360-kilometre roads in Dhaka city and about one crore 20 million people are living in the city. But sometimes, it becomes difficult for the DCC to maintain all civic facilities at a time due to shortage of manpower," Saifuddin said.

Maksudur Rahman, Chief Conservancy Officer of the DCC, said there are 7,000 cleaners in Dhaka city where there were required 15,000 for one crore 20 million city dwellers. The number of cleaners in Mirpur and Jurain areas is too short than Dhanmondi area at present There are only 300 trucks in the city. Of them, 200 trucks are active. "We urged all to use collect garbage in two ways - kitchen dustbin for wet garbage and basket for dry garbage," he also said.

Col Md Shawkat Ali, Health Officer, Enamul Haque, General Manager of Transport Unit of the DCC, Sharfuddin Khan Zilani, Revenue Officer, Col Ashfaq, Chief Engineer of the DCC, among others, were present at the meeting.