The Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) have started removing posters, banners and all other campaign materials used by candidates participating in the 12th national elections held on Sunday.
Since Sunday night, cleaning workers of DNCC began the process of removing posters and banners across all areas in the capital city under the jurisdiction of the city corporation, says a press release.
DNCC Mayor Md Atiqul Islam instructed the waste department of the city corporation to protect the city’s environment by removing all posters, banners, and festoons as early as possible.
“I am urging the residents of Dhaka city, as well as the leaders and members of all political parties, to refrain from placing posters and banners everywhere now that the election is over. Let us maintain the cleanliness of our city and avoid visual pollution,” said the DNCC Mayor.
Meanwhile, the DSCC authorities have also started the process of removing campaign related materials including posters, banners used in the national election campaign.
The removing programme began simultaneously in all 75 wards of the city corporation from 7:00 pm on Monday.
The cleaning activities were conducted throughout the night. About 2,500 cleaners of the corporation were involved in this work, says a press release issued by DSCC Public Relations Officer Abu Naser on Monday.
Regarding the removal of election posters-banners, Chief Waste Management Officer of the DSCC,Mohammad Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury said, “We started the removal of election posters-banners and related materials used in the election campaign from 7 pm on Monday.”
If it is not possible to complete this work by on Monday, this work will be resumed on Tuesday night.
He said, “we want to bring Dhaka city back to its pre-election state through this removal process.”
Candidates are requested to cooperate with our cleaners in the implementation of this campaign.
Also, to protect the beauty of the city, I sincerely request the people of the city corporation not to put up any kind of poster-banner-festoon.
