“Couldn’t even save the cooked food, everything was washed away”
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As soon as the chair-table was moved, water entered the shop’s kitchen. Everything was washed away within 15-20 minutes, even the cooked food could not be saved.” Shahed Alam’s words. He is the manager of Kitchen Asia restaurant in the promoter area of Chittagong city.
Talked with him this Thursday afternoon. The store opened today after two days. However, most of the shop’s furniture and appliances are damaged. The restaurant is operating with plastic chairs. Damaged furniture is left to dry next to the shop.
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He was standing inside the restaurant in the afternoon. He said, ‘It was 12:30 in the afternoon. It’s sale time at the store. At that time water started coming. The store’s refrigerator, cooking raw materials were all destroyed. Now I am doing business by renting plastic chairs.
Dexi Bari Restaurant is just a few shops away from Kitchen Asia. It was also seen there that customers are eating with plastic chairs. These two restaurants are two feet down from the promoter’s main road. Hijra Canal is next to it. At present, the expansion of this canal is going on under the flood relief project. After rains started on Tuesday, water rose up on the road due to the embankment of the canal.
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Kitchen Asia restaurant manager Shahed Alam said there was about four feet of water inside the shop. There were three fridges inside. Grill was the machine, Sharma was the machine. All is lost now. The chair has to be rented at Tk 30 per day. I have brought 70 chairs. Apart from this, food materials are spoiled. If you calculate the loss, it is a lot of money.
In the afternoon, Minhajur Rahman, the managing director of Kitchen Asia and Dexi Bari restaurants, was found outside the restaurant. He said, only furniture worth five lakh taka was lost in the two shops. The machine is broken.
At least 20 areas of Chittagong city went under water in the first heavy rain of the season last Tuesday. At least 500,000 people have to suffer due to this flood. Roads, alleys and shops were submerged in water and the normal movement of the city stopped. Rain continued on Wednesday. Even on this day, waist-deep water rises from the knee at the propulsive junction.
Mir Shahe Alam, Minister of State for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives, visited Pravartak Mor area on Wednesday night. He spoke to reporters standing in front of the culvert of Hijra Canal at Parwartak Mor. At that time, the state minister said that Chittagong city is not floating on water. Chittagong city is still as it is during the dry season.
Dexi Bari and Kitchen Asia Restaurant are located next to where the State Minister was speaking. Managing Director Minhajur Rahman complained that he could not bring the state minister in front of the shop even after telling the officials. He said, ‘I heard what he said, I was there. So I wanted to show him. But I could not bring it to the shop even after many words.
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