Barely one and a half years ago, a trash bin was installed on the footpath in front of office of Executive Engineer, Mirpur Division of Public Works Department on Darussalam road at Mirpur-1 as part of Dhaka's two city corporations' bid to make the city a clean one.

Visiting the spot recently, the news agency correspondents found no waste bin there, only the iron stand standing for which the footpaths are getting dirty once again as there are two shops, including a tea-stall, on the footpath.

Abdur Rahim along with his friend, Bipul Saha, was having tea at the tea-stall the other day. “I used to drop garbage into the bin after its installation here. It was a good decision to improve city's waste management. But one day I found no bin here except the iron-built stand,” said Rahim.

“It has been stolen. I thought the city corporation will replace it with another. But I find no sign yet to replace it,” he said.

A few yards away, there is another waste bin which has already got damaged.

There is another bin on the footpaths in front of Grihayan Bhaban at Segunbagicha under DSCC which got damaged and lost its original shape.

The scenario is not only for those bins, a significant number of bins installed in the areas of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) either were vanished or got damaged.

Though waste bins found stolen in most of the areas but none of those were lost or damaged from Ruposhi Bangla Hotel to Matsya Bhaban via Hear Road which is regarded as a VIP area.

Last year, the two city corporations installed some 6,700 waste bins spending Tk 5.2 crore. Of them, 1,000 were installed in the DNCC while 5,700 in the DSCC areas.

DNCC chief Waste Management officer commodore Abdur Razzak said, "We're now observing the situation. We're yet to replace any waste bin which have been stolen or damaged as we didn't take any decision in this regard,” he added.

The DNCC is conducting a campaign to raise awareness, said the DNCC officer.

DSCC chief waste management officer commodore MK Bakhtiar said, "We're replacing the missing and non-repairable bins in phases."