The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Leaders of DND Unnayan Nagorik Forum yesterday demanded of the Government to include Konapara, Signboard and Shympur within the city corporation area immediately.

They made this demand at a press conference in the Dhaka Reporters' Unity.

President of the Forum Fariduddin Sarkar presided over the conference. Its General Secretary Firoz Ashrafi, SM Wasi Uddin Nurani, Dr Jahangir Alam, Aminur Rahman, Mahbubur Rahman, Abu Taher, Ashraful Anam Shamim, Moulana Asaduzzaman, and Moulana Ibrahim were present at the function.

They pointed out their various problems including environmental pollution by the industrial waste, narrow roads, week drainage system, lack of adequate educational institutions and hospitals. The people of the DND area were deprived of their rights, they claimed.

They demanded the Government's proper initiatives to solve their problems.