Cox's Bazar sea beach
Sarwar Kamal, Dept. of philosophy, CU
Our Cox's Bazar is the biggest and longest sea beach in the world. Blue water, surfing waves, sandy beach and open spaces are alluring attractions for any tourist. It's the unique and only one tourist spot in Bangladesh of which we feel proud and dream of a potential money machine through tourist business. We have a good chance to develop it as an international standard multidimensional tourist spot. But for lack of government attention, development initiatives and proper plan we couldn't develop it as the most attractive tourist zone in the world. Moreover, we destroyed its natural glory with unplanned motel construction and endangered tourists with loose security measures. It's really pitiful for Bangladesh as a third world country that it begs money from IMF while potential economic recourses are remaining out of attention and proper care such as Cox's Bazar sea beach. Add to this, in the recent times a vested groups has made a jetty in the middle of the beach, hurting its virginity, destroying its aesthetic beauty, tarnishing its natural disposition and dividing the beach into two pieces. It's really a ridiculous construction as it's made of wood. Though the local civil society and environmentalists opposed it, observed hunger strike, the government is yet to take any step to withdraw the odd construction. I think the govt. should take immediate steps to remove the jetty and punish the group which engineered it.
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