The Daily Star Chittagong bureau organised a roundtable titled “Drainage is a Menace for Chittagong” at its conference room on August 14 in an effort to bring the drainage and consequent waterlogging issues into media focus.
Abul Momen, adviser to the editor of The Daily Star in Chittagong, briefed about objectives of the series roundtable on Development of Chittagong. He said The Daily Star Chittagong Office will seek views on different problems and make endeavour to highlight development issues and prospect of Chittagong.
The meeting decided to take up a Tk 95 crore project for developing drainage system to rid the port city of waterlogging. It observed that at least 50 per cent of Tk 220 crore earned from Chittagong Port Authority could have helped CCC go for immediate implementation of the project. The meeting also actively considered construction of two sluice gates to drain out the excessive rainwater into the Karnaphuli following a study report conducted by Water Development Board and Institute of Water Modelling in consultation with CDA. The report is scheduled to submit in September.
Under the drainage master plan, the city is divided into 12 drainage areas as follow:
1. Drainage Area No 1: Firingee Bazar, 60 hectares of land (Kazi Nazrul Islam Road, Iqbal Road and Patharghata)
2. Drainage Area No 2: Sadarghat-80 hectares of land (Railway Station, Reazuddin Bazar, Sadarghat Road, Abhoy Mitra Ghat, Enayet Bazar) Nandan Kanan etc.)
3. Drainage Area No 3: Agrabad Commercial Area, 192 hectares of land (Agrabad Commercial Area, Commerce College, Pathantooli, Dhaka Trunk Lane, Madarbari Etc.)
4. Drainage Area No 4 a: Nasir Khal, 315 hectares of land (Sheikh Mujib Road, Karnaphuli Market, Halishahar Road (P) Bangladesh Bank Colony and Agrabad CDA R/A etc)
5. Drainage Area No 4 b: Mohesh Khal, 3046 hectares of land (Fakirhat, Saltgola, Rampura, Halishahar Housing Estate, Nasirabad, Pahartali, Foy’s Lake and Foujderhat etc
6. Drainage Area No 5a: Chaktai Khal, 500 hectares of land (CDA building, CRB, Chaktai Khal, Sirajuddowla Road, Sarson Road, Nur Ahmad Road and Circuit House etc.
7. Drainage Area No 5b: Mirza & Bakalia Khal, 2180 hectares of land (Chaktai Diversion Khal, Rajakhali Khal, Karnaphuli Bridge Road, CDA Avenue, Part of Nasirabad Industrial Area, Chittagong Girls College and Sulak Bahar Road etc
8. Drainage Area No 6: Patenga, 2240 hectares of land (whole area between FM Sowdagar Road and Seamen Hostel, New Mooring in the north to the southern tip of Patenga
9. Drainage Area No 7: Shital Jharna Chhara & Noa Khal, 2264 hectares of land ( Part of Nasirabad Industrial Area, Bayezid Bostami Shrine, Khawza Road, Chandgaon R/A, Abdul Karim Road and Bakalia.
The rest three drainage areas, including the 12th one, are on the other bank of the river Karnaphuli.
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