Transportation problem of Dhaka city

Transportation is a big problem of Dhaka city. Traffic jam, scarcity of motorized vehicles, excessive number of non-motorized vehicles (mostly rickshaws) are some prominent problem of Dhaka city.
Government's policy controls number of motorized vehicles as permission is required to import motorized vehicles like CNG baby taxi. But there is no mechanism in force to control the number of non-motorized vehicles. Since number of motorized vehicles are controlled and there is demand, the number of non-motorized vehicles is increasing day by day to fill up the increasing transport demand. This increased number of non-motorized vehicles is creating further traffic jam on the roads.
Without controlling the number of non-motorized vehicles it is useless to control the number of motorized vehicles. If we have more motorized vehicles plying on the road then demand for rickshaws will be less. Which will help to reduce traffic congestion in the Dhaka city.

Jamuna Bridge cracked: so sad news

Jamuna Bridge is the largest bridge of Bangladesh and one of the long bridges of the world.
Unfortunately unwanted cracks were developed on the bridge surface just after putting the bridge on service. Then the consulting firm termed those as micro cracks and mentioned those were not harmful for the bridge.
But within a decade the cracks propagated further and the expansion joints are also now creating problems.
The bridge needs immediate repair to stop propagation of the cracks and it's faulty expansion joints. Otherwise it may loose it's serviceable life span.

International Mother Language Day

Today (21st February) we are observing International Mother Language Day. In 1952 our people sacrificed their lives to establish Bangla, our mother tongue as official state language.
Now the day is celebrated as International Mother Language Day. We are proud for our martyrs.

Visit to Moinamoti Salbon Vihara

On last 19th February, I visited Moinamoti Salbon Vihara at Comilla. It's one of the oldest archaeological spot of Bangladesh.
The site is 500 ft square. There is a main temple in the middle and a lot of small rooms in the boundaries.

I also visited BARD (Bangladesh Academy of Rural Development) on the occasion.

Bird Flu - Latest threat for Bangladesh

Bird Flue has come as a serious problem for Bangladesh. Just on last November we suffered from strong cyclone SIDR. Now bird flu is threatening to destroy fast growing poultry industry of Bangladesh.
We need to be careful and serious to face the problem.

May Allah save Bangladesh and its poultry industry!

Bangladesh is using only 10% of available bandwidth

According to reports published in local news papers, Bangladesh is using only 10% of available bandwidth for internet. Last year Bangladesh got connected with sub-marine optical fiber line spending about 5000 million local currency (Taka).
But we the Bangladeshis are stupid enough to use only 10% of available bandwidth. Bout government policy and the ISPs are responsible for the situation. Government has reduced fee for bandwidth from this month (February 2007) by 40%. But it is still to high. Price for bandwidth should be further lower by at least 75% so that at least 60% of band width are used.
Although the government is reducing the fee I doubt whether general people will get any significant benefit of it. The ISPs are not interested to buy more bandwidth as they are doing good business buying very limited bandwidth.
We must remember that a lot of renowned ISPs were involved in illegal VoIP business in the past. They just want their profit. They don't have any commitment to the society.
Bangladeshi internet users are victim of out dated government policy and evil motives of the ISPs. In fact ISPs are also controlling the government policy.