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Footpath shops cause public sufferings at Dumuria

Published : Friday, 19 July, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 63
Our Correspondent
DUMURIA, KHULNA, July 18: Public movements on footpath and roads in Dumuria Upazila of the district are halted due to running business activities by hawkers and roadside shop owners. 

Pedestrians, passengers of rickshaw and auto-rickshaw are mostly suffering.

As the footpaths remain occupied with floating shops, people in compelling condition, have to walk on the roads. So, small and big accidents are occurring frequently.

Along with the hawkers, owners of shops beside roads are also used to display their products on footpaths, halting the pedestrians' moving. If pedestrians protest, they have to face misconduct.

Also rickshaw and motor cycles are parked in front of footpath shops. 

A recent visit found footpaths of different roads in the town occupied.  On these footpaths, traders set up floating shops. One side of the road has been fully occupied by Bhangari traders. 

A pedestrian Abdur Rahman said, "Floating traders have occupied footpaths, stopping our moving. Finding no option, we have to walk on gaps of such shops."

To free the footpaths, the upazila administration will have to take initiative, he demanded. 

A businessman Imon Khan said, if want, Dumuria fruit market authorities can free footpaths. But if it is not done systemically, small traders will fall into financial losses.

That is why, he added, fixed places should be placed for these footpath traders.

Requesting anonymity, a number of traders said, they run small businesses; their families run, somehow, on their poor incomes; they don't have capacity to take rent of shops. 

People come to purchase goods from them at cheaper prices, they added.

But they admitted, because of their shops, pedestrians face problems, and despite that they have to continue footpaths based businesses to manage their livelihood. 

Some people at Dumuria Bazar said, fruit traders have occupied footpaths. After joining, the UNO will see the matter, they hoped. 

Also traffic jam is created on roads in the upazila town. It takes 20 minutes to pass a road of two minutes. At present, ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, the public suffering has gone up. 

Public communications are mostly halted on Thana Road, Baroani Bazar Road and Kalibari road in the upazila town.
 
So far, there has been no initiative by the authorities concerned to evict such illegal shops.



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