The New Nation - Internet Edition

Recently I went to visit some tourist spots in different districts of Dhaka, Barisal and Khulna division with my wife and children using our own car. To plan our routes we bought recently published maps of five different commercial publishing houses of the country.

Unfortunately, we found that the road routes shown in these maps are someway different from the reality. We found some excellent highways comparable to British A type roads which were not shown in any of these maps. Secondly, we found some roads shown in the maps which are not in existence. Third, the maps are not properly scaled. Fourth, the maps do not show the existence of ferry boats. There are many other drawbacks. We used roads shown in the maps then when we reached a destination we learnt that we could use short cuts.

We bought specially those maps which were forwarded by important academicians of the country. Now we are surprised that how these academicians forwarded these maps without knowing the realities, exact locations and wrong scaling.

Easily available communication network maps are essential prerequisites for the development planners as well as the people of the country. We, therefore, request the present government kindly to form a small committee comprising the officials of R&H and LGED to update the maps and publish the same in A4 size booklet through the government printing press immediately.

Anwarul Hasan Sufi

Professor,

Department of Psychology,

Rajshahi University