C T Online Desk: Chittagong City Outer Ring Road was constructed at a cost of around three and a quarter thousand crore taka. This beautiful road is becoming dangerous even before its inauguration. There are robberies, accidents. Illegal workshops are being built around the road. The road is also used to dump dead bodies after killing.
Since there are no street lights on this road, which is the main means of traffic of goods worth hundreds of crores of rupees in Chittagong port, it is pitch black at night. The 15 km long road built on the seashore has not been kept for local people to cross. In July last year, the dead body of a young man named Shah Alam was dumped on the side of the ring road. Earlier, a businessman named Alamgir was murdered on the side of this road. Those concerned say that there are about 1.5 million residents in the city around the sea. Among them there are about five thousand fishermen families.
Those who have to cross the city outer ring road every day for their livelihood. But in the road construction plan, no provision has been made for local people to cross. There is no service lane on the road. Besides, more than half a hundred garages have been built illegally around this road. Trucks, covered vans, long vehicles are being kept on one side of the road. Accidents are increasing day by day due to lack of speed limiter to reduce the speed of the vehicle.
