Construction of market at Dhupkhola playground is not in public interest

THE offender again is the Dhaka’s city corporation authorities, of its southern part to be precise, which is building a multi-storey market in Dhupkhola Maath, a historic playground for Old Dhaka dwellers. The DSCC authorities find it not worthwhile to have this open space left for children of the locality to play. For them, there can be no benefit from a playground.
Why does the DSCC do this? What is their rationale behind this? Certainly while allowing construction of a market, the DSCC might have thought that it would earn some money. Even it is possible that it might have cloaked this motive by the rather philanthropic thought that the market would, once constructed, become a source of earning for the people who would open businesses there.
No, our relevant authorities do not attach any value to the question of how the children of the capital can be better brought up as healthy and responsible citizens. They perhaps think that children getting addicted to electronic gadgets are not a serious problem or it does not matter much that they, in the absence of fields, play in the narrow alleys of the neighbourhood. It also does matter to these people that open spaces provide healthy relief to people of the ever-increasing crowds of the city.
For them, having a market place in place of a playground is profitable. It is because of this that Dhaka’s playgrounds are vanishing one after another. Ours is a strange country where citizens often have to come onto the streets to protest this kind of outrageous act or go to court seeking redress. The government or the city corporation authorities on their own do not feel it necessary to have more playgrounds for children and parks for the capital’s residents.  
However, this time again a High Court Bench, responding to a writ petition filed by rights organisations–Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon, Nijera Kori, Association for Land Reform and Development, Ain o Salish Kendra, Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust, Nagorik Uddyog and Green Voice Bangladesh—had to pass an order of stopping the market construction on the Dhupkhola Maath. While passing the order, the HC pertinently asked the government and DSCC authorities why the construction would not be declared as a violation of a number of the High Court verdicts that asked the government to protect and preserve open spaces and playgrounds.
To set aside public interest and help businessmen make money as they like cannot be the right decision.