Solution to traffic woes

Solution to traffic woes

Mushfique Wadud goes through different studies, conducted by government and other organisations, and talks to experts about 10 possible solutions to the intolerable traffic jam situation in the Dhaka city

photo by Al-Emrun Garjon

On August 19, a heavy downpour plunged Dhaka under water again aggravating the already bad traffic situation in the city.

Thousands of commuters were seen stranded in Farmgate, waiting for buses and other vehicles. They thronged the lone buses, pushing and shoving each other, that made its way into the area. When some could not find seat or failed to get on a bus despite waiting for one for over hours, they broke the glasses of some of these vehicles and beat up the bus-conductors. They even threw water at those who secured seats inside the buses, as if they were their sworn enemies.

Pending salaries and unrest in the RMG sector

Pending salaries and unrest
in the RMG sector

Mushfique Wadud investigates the causes behind the recent garment factory workers’ unrest in Fatullah, Narayanganj and talks to leaders of the country’s Ready-Made Garments sector on how damaging an impact such uproars could have on the sector and ways to prevent such turmoil in future

photo by Prito Reza

On August 25, reports of the latest episode of unrest among workers of a garment factory surfaced as hundreds of workers of the Auto Textile Knitwear Limited, in Lalpur, at the Fatullah industrial hub, Narayanganj, took to the streets in protest.

The workers had been at loggerheads with the factory owners over their impending salaries, which culminated into demonstrations. The workers’, prompted the police to charge in and disperse the protestors, quashing chances of workers taking any violent meas