The number of animals at Gazipur Safari Park has dropped sharply in recent years amid allegations of mismanagement, negligence, and theft.
Despite repeated deadly fire incidents, the government has yet to relocate hazardous chemical warehouses from Dhaka’s residential areas to designated industrial zones in Munshiganj.
A radical change has transformed the lives of people in Rathura, Sankatpur, Demra, Fetalia and Nashera villages of Gazipur’s Kaliganj upazila.
Families were seen sitting in the field in front of the park, while shopkeepers set up stalls selling food and other items outside the entrance. Horse-drawn carriages and other entertainment options were also available near the gate
Abdul Aziz once harvested rice in abundance from his fields next to Labondaho, once a picturesque river located in Indrapur, Gazipur’s Sreepur. Today, he stands on cracked earth, nursing losses and lamenting poisoned waters.
Cotton bundles are purchased from abroad to make yarn at spinning mills
The last time Shanto and Suman saw their mother, she was shivering in the cold, wrapped in a tattered blanket that barely covered her frail frame
The number of animals at Gazipur Safari Park has dropped sharply in recent years amid allegations of mismanagement, negligence, and theft.
Despite repeated deadly fire incidents, the government has yet to relocate hazardous chemical warehouses from Dhaka’s residential areas to designated industrial zones in Munshiganj.
A radical change has transformed the lives of people in Rathura, Sankatpur, Demra, Fetalia and Nashera villages of Gazipur’s Kaliganj upazila.
25 have no lids in 4km areas
Families were seen sitting in the field in front of the park, while shopkeepers set up stalls selling food and other items outside the entrance. Horse-drawn carriages and other entertainment options were also available near the gate
Abdul Aziz once harvested rice in abundance from his fields next to Labondaho, once a picturesque river located in Indrapur, Gazipur’s Sreepur. Today, he stands on cracked earth, nursing losses and lamenting poisoned waters.
Cotton bundles are purchased from abroad to make yarn at spinning mills
The last time Shanto and Suman saw their mother, she was shivering in the cold, wrapped in a tattered blanket that barely covered her frail frame
Fifty-year-old Arati Rani stood with others in despair at the entrance to Tetultala Colony, which was home to 24 families of laid-off workers of Beximco Group factories in Gazipur.
Shuttered tea-stalls, closed restaurants, vacant parking spaces, and a deserted entrance—once abuzz with tourists, the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Safari Park in Gazipur, the second largest of its kind in the country, has seen no crowd for around two months.
