Clean Dhaka , Green Dhaka

Moving in and around the city during the Eid-ul-Azha is absolutely a horrendous experience. Cleaning the capital during the Eid Ul Azha becomes a major challenge for the responsible government agency since thousands of animals are sacrificed right on the streets and the waste is usually left out in the open. Apart from its regular task to clean the waste generated by over 12 million people living in the capital, Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has to take additional responsibilities of creating systematic disposal options for the city dwellers during this particular Eid. With limited manpower, financial support and equipment, cleaning the city in the shortest period of time continues to be an uphill task for DCC.

As a result, the waste remains rotting in the streets for at least two-days emanating the noxious smells.

The problem begins a few days before Eid day when people buy animals from the local haats that spring up everywhere and then when they keep these animals in apartments and houses, which do not have any facility to keep such animals for a few days. Many citizens indiscriminately dispose of the straw and excreta of the animals here and there, contributing to the pollution even before the sacrificing of the animals.

It is a mammoth task for DCC to clean this extra waste.

It is a mammoth task for DCC to clean this extra waste. This problem deteriorates on the Eid day when millions of cattle are sacrificed and blood is spilled on the lanes. Claiming DCC is gearing up activities to remove the waste generated from the sacrifice of animals in two days, DCC Chief Waste Management Officer, Captain Bipon Kumar Saha says that along with the fleet of 8,000 regular cleaning staff, DCC has employed 1,400 additional cleaners to do the job. Moreover, private waste collection service providers will be included in the cleaning programme led by DCC.

"We will also deploy all of our logistical equipment such as garbage trucks, containers, trawlers, pray loaders, tire-dodgers, dump trucks and water lorries for this purpose. Moreover, we have requested Wasa and the Fire Service department to provide us water-carrying trucks, which will be engaged in spraying water in all the areas to clean the blood of the sacrificed animals. Sufficient amount of bleaching powder and antiseptic to be used for cleaning, has also been distributed to the zones."

However, the DCC high official believes that only DCC cannot tackle this situation unless people become more aware and carry out their responsibilities properly. "Without support from the public it will be difficult for us to clean the city in time. We will try our best to clean the waste but most people do not behave responsibly. It would be a lot easier to clean the city if the devotees sacrificed the animals in a designated spot instead of soiling the streets," he says.

DCC will start awareness generating programmes for proper disposals in every locality ahead of Eid. The high official says a mass awareness programme has already been launched by posting advertisements in newspapers, and distribution of stickers, leaflets and posters. "We will also request the imams of mosques and Eid congregations to create awareness among the devotees about cleanliness and tell them how the wastes should be removed. Moreover, we will start making announcements on mikes two days ahead of the Qurbani Eid in all the wards. The do's and don'ts prepared by the DCC regarding animal waste disposal will be read out so that people get an idea how to deal with it," says the high official.

Piles of garbage in alleyways are a common sight in Dhaka. It is most likely to get worse n the coming days.

He further adds, "If people keep the Qurbani waste in a separate dustbin other than throwing here and there, our cleaners would be able to pick it from the dustbin. It is very important that nobody dumps the waste in the drains."

The best way to manage the waste would be to dig a hole and bury the leftovers there. If there is any blood spilt on the ground it should immediately be washed off with a lot of water and bleaching powder.

Economy of Bangladesh

Just imagine, a country in where 38.6% people live under poverty line. In 2008, per capita income was US $1389 where by the average was us$10,497. According to the International Monetary Fund, Bangladesh is 48^th largest economy in the world in 2008. GDP is now US $0228.4 billion and half of this GDP belongs to service sector where two third of the population are working in agricultural sector. Rice is most important product upon which the GDP relies significantly. Peoples, who work overseas mostly in Middle East and East Asia, have significant role as Bangladesh earns remittances.

Besides garments is another source of foreign exchange earning. Rice and jute, two most important products upon which our economy depends a lot. Jute is called the golden fibre of Bangladesh. Now a days wheat production is increasing. But as population is increasing at a very high rate, Bangladesh is facing food problems thereby it has to pay a lot of currencies to import food products especially child food. 10% to 15% of population is facing serious nutritional problems and 45% people are at risk of food security. Again it is a country of rivers, so floods affect a lot in cultivation. Natural disaster also plays vital role in destroying our economy.After achieving independence in 1971, Bangladesh confronted the challenging task of developing and diversifying its economy, as the country had very limited natural resources and arable land with which to support its rapidly growing population. The task was complicated by years of political turbulence and military coups (in 1975, 1981, and 1982) that did little to attract international investors and by devastating natural disasters that regularly visited Bangladesh in the 1970s and 1980s. By the beginning of the 21st century, according to the World Bank, Bangladesh had become one of the poorest and least-developed economies in Asia.

During the 1970s and 1980s the government of Bangladesh promoted economic development based on heavy state involvement both in economic management and economic planning. In fact, after achieving independence, the government led by the Awami League, nationalized large and medium-sized enterprises in jute, cotton textile, sugar processing, banking and insurances. Its economic policies were centered on 5-year plans (the first 5-year plan was launched in 1973), which aimed at development and public resource allocation modeled on the Soviet 5-year experience. However, the Bangladeshi experiment with socialism did not last long, and the government eschewed radical changes. The country's average gross domestic product (GDP) growth of around 3.3 percent in the 1970s and 4.4 percent in the 1980s (World Bank calculation) were very impressive, but this growth was offset by even more rapid growth of the population.

In 1991, new civilian government considerably revised the economic policies of the previous government, introducing elements of free market economy, limiting state intervention, downsizing the government, launching privatization and attempting to attract foreign direct investments (FDIs) and technologies. The political stability of the 1990s and the new economic policies attracted international investors and greatly contributed to the economic growth of around 5 percent throughout the 1990s. However, Bangladesh still depends heavily on international assistance and loans, as well as remittances from Bangladeshis working abroad. According to the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Country Report, in 1999 the country's external debt stood at US$15.145 billion, or 35 percent of GDP. This amount is relatively small according to international standards and mainly due to past capital account restrictions. According to the IMF, one of the peculiarities of the Bangladeshi foreign debt that makes it different from that of Indonesia or Malaysia is that it is almost entirely public, with private debt accounting for a low 5 percent of the total country's debt. Bangladeshi official reserves stood at a level of US$1.522 billion in 1999.
The structure of the Bangladeshi economy changed gradually over the last 3 decades. According to the World Bank, the contribution of agriculture to the country's GDP has been steadily declining from 55 percent in 1970 to 31.6 in 1999, although it still provides employment to large numbers of people. Bangladesh remains one of the world's leading producers of jute and rice, although most of the rice is for domestic consumption rather than export. The proportion of manufactured production grew from 9 percent of GDP in 1970 to 19.3 percent of GDP in 1999. Manufactured products accounted for around 60 percent of gross export earnings in 1999, with clothing goods becoming the single most important product. Tourism is a very small but rapidly growing sector of the economy that increased by around 42 percent between 1993 and 1998. Approximately 171,000 tourists visited the country in 1999, contributing Tk2.4 billion to the national economy. By comparison, tiny Singapore attracts a similar number of tourists every week.

For a long time Bangladesh struggled to diversify its economy. Large and medium state-owned enterprises dominate the manufacturing sector, although a number of private enterprises were established during the 1990s. Medium and small farms dominate the agricultural sector, and many farmers are still engaged in subsistence agriculture. Meanwhile, a number of medium and small, usually family-owned, enterprises dominate the service sector, especially retail. Bangladesh tried to catch up with the information technologies boom in the 1990s, but unlike neighboring India, it failed to promote this sector of its economy on a similar scale.

Economic growth and stability failed to bring economic prosperity to a large proportion of the population, especially in rural areas. Since the 1970s there has been an outflow of large numbers of the young and the most talented people from the country through various legal and illegal channels. Allegedly, organized criminal groups connected to drug trafficking control this outflow. Drugs are another important issue, as Bangladesh shares a border with Burma (Myanmar), which is a part of the world's largest opium producing region called the "Golden Triangle" (an area between Burma, Laos, and Thailand). The shadow economy is believed to be very large due to incomplete economic activities data collection, tax evasion, and a strong tradition of cash economy, although this shadow economy is not necessarily related to organized criminal activities. In 1996 a national account task force was formed to upgrade the outdated and inefficient system of national accounting, having among other goals to deal with the problem of calculating and capturing shadow economy activities.

Eco

There is no doubt that Bangladesh is developing at a good rate but its internal infrastructure to support the communication, transportation, water and power supply is quite limited. The service sectors are developing rapidly but industrial sectors are remaining undeveloped. There is eye catching development in coal mining. Lastly, we have large human resource, abundant water and agricultural land. But what will be happened while we would use all of these resources??

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