Poorly Planned Dhaka Roads Under Water

[eastwatch]

Dhaka people suffer even with only a hour-long rainfall. I have observed that the wide roads have not been provided with drain channels. There are points where there are manholes. Water slowly moves toward these.

After entering the manholes water runs through underground pipes to where i do not know. but, this cause water logging with even a small rainfall.

I have written a one page suggestions to Obaidul Quader, the Minister of Communications and gave him a few suggestions on how to reduce the water logging.

Sorry, it is just a reporting from a shocked observer like me staying in Dhaka. It is certainly not a civilized City.

 

[Mattrixx]

Dhaka people suffer even with only a hour-long rainfall. I have observed that the wide roads have not been provided with drain channels. There are points where there are manholes. Water slowly moves toward these.

After entering the manholes water runs through underground pipes to where i do not know. but, this cause water logging with even a small rainfall.

I have written a one page suggestions to Obaidul Quader, the Minister of Communications and gave him a few suggestions on how to reduce the water logging.

Sorry, it is just a reporting from a shocked observer like me staying in Dhaka. It is certainly not a civilized City.

How did you give him suggestions. With his FB, email or something else. They get many suggestions but
for some reasons they are never fulfilled.

 

[eastwatch]

How did you give him suggestions. With his FB, email or something else. They get many suggestions but
for some reasons they are never fulfilled.

I checked out his email address from the ministry of communications and sent the brief suggestions. Well, it is so grave that a 5-year/10-year plan is needed to correct the drainage system. However, it must be started at some point of the time.

Since it is an engineering problem, therefore, I strictly limited my suggestions only to engineering values. Except perhaps a one liner to praise the minister's personal integrity. I said that he is liked also by people from non-AL.

@idune, please tell us if you really do not like a minister who criticizes his own party colleagues, and he works honestly.

 

[Mattrixx]

I checked out his email address from the ministry of communications and sent the brief suggestions. Well, it is so grave that a 5-year/10-year plan is needed to correct the drainage system. However, it must be started at some point of the time.

Since it is an engineering problem, therefore, I strictly limited my suggestions only to engineering values. Except perhaps a one liner to praise the minister's personal integrity. I said that he is liked also by people from non-AL.

@idune, please tell us if you really do not like a minister who criticizes his own party colleagues, and he works honestly.

Dont you think the complex system is responsible for this. Many departments like Roads and highways, Wasa, Rajuk, City corporation etc etc are related to a single matter. They simply try to double cross one another. And hence problem start. And yes he is a great minister. But I think @idune has some serious logics behind all these

 

[eastwatch]

Dont you think the complex system is responsible for this. Many departments like Roads and highways, Wasa, Rajuk, City corporation etc etc are related to a single matter. They simply try to double cross one another. And hence problem start. And yes he is a great minister. But I think @idune has some serious logics behind all these

Yes, these crossings may cause problem, but only during construction. Problems surface when one deptt starts digging for laying its own system. However, I did not say anything about the construction phase. I talked only about the lack of drainage system.

For example, if Communication Ministry contracts a company to do the survey of all the existing facilities in and within 5m of the existing road, the law should allow the company to collect data for existing facilities from all other departments.

This is not a place to talk about intermingling of different systems underground. But, in Japan I myself collected information from water supply deptt. or electricity deptt. when survey is conducted to add new pipelines or manholes to existing facilities.

It means, every deptt must safekeep all such information and must provide these to other departments when asked for.

 

[Allah Akbar]

i have two house in dhaka ,one is in ibarahimpur near dhaka cantonment another is in khilkhet.the roads of khilkhets are epic.only the newly brought mbt2000 or the army APCs can be driven there but no vehicles.rest is upon your imagination.no other citys in this world has such roads like dhaka

Dhaka people suffer even with only a hour-long rainfall. I have observed that the wide roads have not been provided with drain channels. There are points where there are manholes. Water slowly moves toward these.

After entering the manholes water runs through underground pipes to where i do not know. but, this cause water logging with even a small rainfall.

I have written a one page suggestions to Obaidul Quader, the Minister of Communications and gave him a few suggestions on how to reduce the water logging.

Sorry, it is just a reporting from a shocked observer like me staying in Dhaka. It is certainly not a civilized City.

 

[J dud]

well its not an unfamiliar sight too see roads getting flooded in slight rain in dhaka............and in many places in dhaka roads are almost unuseable even without rain .........drainage system is sub-per and that is the main reason for flooding .......
anyways @eastwatch you have written to the wrong place ........... Ministry of Communications is not in-charge of the drainage system....DCC is responsible in this case................................................................... but writing to them wont bring anything fruitful either .................................


as for Mr obaidul kader .........he is a good politician ....he is from my hometown ...there everyone respects him regardless of which political party they support

 

[the just]

Eventually Dhaka will be announced as unlivable city.the capital may need to move.the ppl without means will drift.The AAM JONOTA will be the sufferers.

 

[eastwatch]

well its not an unfamiliar sight too see roads getting flooded in slight rain in dhaka............and in many places in dhaka roads are almost unuseable even without rain .........drainage system is sub-per and that is the main reason for flooding .......
anyways @eastwatch you have written to the wrong place ........... Ministry of Communications is not in-charge of the drainage system....DCC is responsible in this case................................................................... but writing to them wont bring anything fruitful either .................................


as for Mr obaidul kader .........he is a good politician ....he is from my hometown ...there everyone respects him regardless of which political party they support

A roadside drainage system is an integral part of the road structure itself. So, these two should be combined into one. DCC is run by people like Khoka who understands nothing about drainage system.

Anyway, since the drainage system is a matter of national interest, therefore, people at the top should sit and find out solution.

In case of existing roads, if you are correct, then it is the DCC that should build the drain channels with its own fund. But to do so, it must sit with the road communication ministry (or whichever ministry is the boss) and co-ordinate its survey and construction works with that ministry.

Anyway, I am surprised to see there is really almost no drain channels at the two edges of the wide roads. Sometimes, I see a very tiny V-shaped channels. These were provided only to make the unsuspecting population into believing that there is an ample provision of drains.

We cannot claim to be a civilized country unless drains are provided with the input of all the related engineering values.

Contrary to what we see in Dhaka, Kolkata has been provided with very wide and deep channels under the big roads. The City was built during British era. So, the roads/drains were designed by the British engineers assisted by the educated Hindus.