Despite widespread criticism of cutting trees in the name of development, at least 200 trees were chopped down in the last couple of weeks at Sylhet city’s Shahjalal Upashahar area.
There are laws, rules and specific instructions on how a government authority should remain prepared all the time to face a disaster. But that preparedness is often out of practice and they seem to await a forecast in this regard. Such slackness may somehow be salvageable when it comes to flood or cyclones, but not in the case of an earthquake, as the science is yet to advance
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.