Two building structures in the horizon of Dhaka that still stand as a sign of disrespect to rule of law
BGMEA building and Rangs building - both should make their way to the public interest. If you left out these important signs of corruption and at the same time go out of your way to setup TAC, people will start questioning your motive. By this time, government should have learned that managing the public perception is very important.
Its appalling to see that both of these above mentioned structures still stands defying public interest.
Both should go down or make their way for the greater good of the public.
The first one, the BGMEA building seems like survived the Hatirjheel-Begunbari project, even though it has been reported how BGMEA people has shown disrespect to the law of the country with corrupt practices of the Rajuk people. Even though the alleged malpractice was done by one of the main business association of the country, they should not be given a free pass. This highly publicized corruption should give its way to the greater public interest. Government may give them some other land to build a new BGMEA building.
What do we want to do with this building? Tear down this one?
If that is creating major problem with the road construction, then yes, tear it down.
If road construction is not hampered by the presence of this building, then we have a better idea for this one.
Let us take this building and create a high-rise public place out of this building. It can be turned into a mix of different things to create an urban getaway for the citizens - a food court, an indoor sports zone for kids, a video games corner, a public parking, a spot for Dhaka city viewing through installed binoculars. Turn this into a tourist cum civic spot. Several of the floor can also be turned into the first Industrial Museum of Bangladesh. All these facilities, among others, will be run for-profit basis, or may be the space can be leased out to private entrepreneurs for doing the above-mentioned things in return of a yearly rent. The income can be given to the association of garment workers welfare fund or can be used to run a chain of low cost schools for the children of garment workers. That would be a much better way to handle the public interest. We hope that BGMEA leadership will heed to this.
For the second one, the Rangs building - the fate is already decided. It is in the process of going down, to make way to create an important intersection that is expected to help reduce the problem of traffic jam. However, the speed at which the work is progressing does not look good. RAJUK's highup people should have been held responsible for this mess at the very beginning. But the government hasn't touched those culprits yet. And it seems that something is cooking with the building, again. They are using a time-pass strategy hoping to find a favourable wind again - it seems.
If the government doesn't know how to handle the job, here is some tip. All the Rajuk highups (chairman /engineer / management) should be brought out of their office and tied in poles in front of Bijoy Shoroni island until they complete the taking down of the building. Once that is done, you will see how they find a quicker way to dismantle this sign of tyrranny which started with Ershad chora and grew up and/or lived throughout the period of Khaleda and Hasina. This one should go down now without any further delay.
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Send it to BGMEA President and other directors at this link:
Also send it to the FBCCI people at this link:
Last but not the least, send it to the ACC:
The more of you forward it to them, the less will be the need to go back to street agitation. Use ICT to practice democracy.
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