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June
15, 2000
Khulna,
June 14 (UNB)- Defying the warning from the Public Works Department (PWD)
people are living in over 200 worn out buildings in the city risking
their lives.
PWD
sources said, considering the dilapidated conditions the department
declared over 200 government and private buildings
abandoned and unfit for human habitation in 1990. The
department also issued letters to the residents of these buildings
warning them of collapse of the building at any time.
Ten
years passed away but due to residential problems and other financial
constraints the people are forced to live in these dilapidated
buildings. Besides, the residents hoped that government would allot
these abandoned houses to them so that they could undertake necessary
repair and reconstruction works.
These
buildings were constructed in the 1930s or 1940s at Kahlishpur, South
Central Road, Ramchandra Das Road, Deven Babu Road, Banorgati,
Dolakhan, Shibbari and Moheswar pasha area in the city.
But
after the British and Pakistani rule and 30 years of independence no
initiatives were taken to reconstruct these buildings.
After
the independence the government declared these buildings as enemy
property and rented these to the low-income group of people with a
minimum rent.
As
the department declared these abandoned it has no budgetary allocation
to repair or reconstruct those and as a result the conditions of these
buildings were deteriorated in the last ten years.
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