CNG( auto-rickshaw) journey and Dhaka city

CNG in Dhaka city    - photo by khalilur rahman

Last month , I was in Dhaka, capital city of Bangladesh for three weeks holidays . Dhaka is very ancient and highly populated  and Mega city in South-East Asia .     Public transport system is a very miserable and horrible in Dhaka  .If you do not travel by your own transport , then the journey can be a disastrous at any time .Trains, buses do not run properly on scheduled timetables. Cab or taxi is not always available , the attitude of cabbies are most of the time are very rude. They do not follow any rules, whether it is about traffic rules or or taxi-fares. CNG ( previously known as baby taxi ) is the only transport , which is widely available everywhere of Dhaka city.  If you do not travel by trains or buses or cars , then the only choice is available for you a journey by CNG ( auto rickshaw). I have traveled by CNG for couple times in Dhaka, most of the time , I found , the drivers are very rude. They do not have any duty of care to the customers /passengers.They always bargain about the fare, they never follow the meter of fare. At the very beginning of the tour , they fix the fare and destination according to their choices , which is absolutely against the rules and regulation. Passengers have to pay many times more to the actual fares. Moreover , this sector is not strictly regulated and monitored by law enforcement agencies of Bangladesh . A journey by CNG in Dhaka city is simply a night-mare.

traffic-jam and dhaka

photo - khalilur rahman

Dhaka -       khalilur rahman

Once upon a time, Dhaka , capital city of Bangladesh was an exquisite city in Bangladesh or even in South -East Asia .If you have been in Dhaka at least one decade ago , you must have enjoyed the beauties of her at every suburbs . But now it is worst case scenario for Dhaka . Extreme traffic jams,floods of mozzies and flies, frequent blackouts ( locally known as load shading ) scarcities of public trasports, no traffic rules, uncontrolled and expensive transport fares and frequent dominance of muggers on streets  are very frequent scenarios in Dhaka city . Infact , Dhaka lost all her beauties  because of rein-less corruptions and uncontrolled and over populations  . The scale of sufferings of city dwellers is beyond any description . City dwellers are spending a lot of time to getting to workplaces and getting back after works . Governments , local governments or other governments agencies are not taking any sustainable and effective steps to eliminate all these sorts problems .All these sorts of environmental problems are getting worst every day .