Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh said infrastructure will be built at 53 signals in South City to introduce Artificial Intelligence-AI based automatic traffic system in Dhaka.
He conveyed this information at a press conference titled ‘3 years in the progress of better Dhaka’ at Mayor Hanif Auditorium of Nagar Bhaban on Tuesday (May 16) on the occasion of three years of assuming office as Mayor.
The DSCC Mayor told that, even though manual traffic management has disappeared from the world, Dhaka Megacity has never found the right direction. But we want to break that taboo. Consultants have been hired to build physical infrastructure and install artificial intelligence-based automated traffic signals at 53 intersections. The work of preparing the DPP of this project is going on.
In addition, the city mayor claimed that Dhaka South City is the ‘most corruption-free institution’ in the press conference. He said, “Since the first day of taking charge, I have been implementing my ‘zero tolerance’ policy against irregularities and corruption. This is an ongoing process under administrative reform. In the past 3 years, hundreds of officers and employees have been dismissed for various crimes including corruption and irregularities.”
Apart from this, more than 500 officers and employees including 109 drivers of heavy vehicles have been appointed to reduce the severity of the shortage of required manpower at this time. As a result, the rate of implementation of supervision and development programs has increased as well as the speed of delivery of citizen services and the casual work of the corporation, added Taposh.
Taposh also said, ‘Just as we have evicted the illegal occupiers of many markets including Fulbaria Super Market, Sundarban Square Market, which became a paradise of irregularities for a long time, dozens of illegal multi-storied buildings and structures built around the Buriganga Adi Channel have been freed.’
The mayor said, ‘On the eve of the mayoral election, I promised to establish good governance without imposing any tax burden on the people of Dhaka. As per that promise, we have not increased any tax in any sector in the last 3 years. Rather, 25 new sectors have been created during this time and we have started collecting revenue from 14 new sectors. As a result, Dhaka South City Corporation continues to create history in revenue collection in the midst of a global crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, which is still ongoing.
