Parks and gardens
Swapan Ahmed, Dhanmondi
Dhaka is short of adequate parks and gardens. It is an irony that the military ruler Ershad built a few of the beautiful parks in the city. But successive elected governments failed to build any new park. Rather, existing parks have been squeezed. Every new government should build one new park or garden. The entire area vacated by the central jail should be converted into a park. On the bank of Buriganga, there could be a garden. There has been a proposal to make a park in the area adjacent to the Airport Road. Balda Garden should be extended further by shifting the sweeper colony to some other place. Parade Square should be an open place for holding public functions like concerts, fairs etc. The authorities, it seems, are more keen to make money by commercial use of open space, so the environmentalists and civil society members should press hard for more green patches in our city.
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