Sylhet Shishu Park: 15 years spent in naming
Sylhet Shishu Park: 15 years spent in naming
To resolve all complications, SCC has finally decided to name the park as ‘Jananetri Sheikh Hasina Shishu Park’
A children’s amusement park in Sylhet city is yet to be inaugurated even 15 years after the project was initiated only because of a difference of opinion over naming the park, which has long deprived children of healthy amusement.
In 2006, during the rule of the BNP-led four-part coalition government, the Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) initiated building the park at Dakshin Surma.
The park was at first named ‘M Saifur Rahman Shishu Park’ after the BNP leader, also the then lawmaker from Sylhet-1 constituency, who persuaded the city corporation to undertake the initiative. As the then finance and planning minister, he also facilitated fund allocation for it.