Garbage is being dumped indiscriminately on roadsides and in ditches for years in Faridpur municipality area, to the suffering of passers-by and locals due to the foul smell.

Municipality sources said there are 16,000 houses in the town, but they collect waste from only 3,800 houses. Of the 350 dustbins in the town, only 200 are now exist and of the nine waste dumping spots in nine wards, two are closed.

On a recent visit to different places in the town, this correspondent found that restaurants and food stores, some diagnostic centres, shopkeepers and residents dump garbage at New Bus stand area, beside Miapara Road, in front of Faridpur Medical College Hospital gate and beside the vegetable market in Pashchim Khakuspur area.

 “Some staff of restaurants have been dumping food waste into a pond beside the roads for years, so it is really difficult to run my shop due to the bad odour,” said Musha Mollah, a teashop owner in New bus stand area.

“Residents and shopkeeper of this area have been dumping their waste beside the Dhaka-Barisal Highway for one and a half years. Sometimes, workers of the municipality also dump waste there,” said Masud Biswas, a tea shop owner at Miapara road area.

“I have been running my shop here for two years, and I see local residents dumping waste in a pond beside the bazar. But municipality workers never collect the waste from there,” said Monju Mia, a vegetable trader of the vegetable market in Paschim Khakuspur area.

“Locals have been dumping their house waste in a pond beside Abdul Majid Mia road for years. The owner of the pond built a fence around it to prevent dumping of waste, but they are still throwing waste there,” said Md Siraj, a resident of Purbo Khabashpur area.

“People of this municipality have been dumping waste at different places for long. We shall tell them to dump the waste in designated places from now,” said Mayor Sheikh Mahatab Ali.