The Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) authorities want a road development charges be imposed on the movement of heavy vehicles owned by steel mill companies.
Plying of heavy vehicles belonging to steel mill owners is putting extra pressure on the CCC road and causing damages. So, the CCC can get service charges (from the owners) for repairing the damaged road and keeping it suitable for heavy traffic, CCC Administrator Mohammad Khorshed Alam Sujan said.
Steel mill owners can set the charges for CCC in consultation with others who too own heavy vehicles, he added.
Sujan made the remarks at a meeting with the steel mill owners at his office on the Tigerpass intersection on Tuesday.
The CCC administrator said the container yards surrounding the Chittagong seaport have been built without any plan. A container yard is supposed to be built with a distance of 20 km from the port but it’s not followed at all, causing traffic jam in the city and disrupting the port’s operation.
The CCC will launch mobile court drive if the steel mill companies do not remove their lorries from the Port Connecting Road within a day or two, Sujan said requesting the owners to pay the arrears of holding taxes.
CCC Chief Executive Officer Kazi Mozammel Haque, Chief Revenue Officer Mufidul Alam, Revenue Officer Shahida Fatema, BSRM Director Tapan Sengupta, KSRM Director Syed Nazrul Alam, Abul Khair Group Representative Brigadier General (Retd) Shahidullah Chowdhury, and GPH Steel Media Advisor Ovik Osman, among others, were present at the meeting.
