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The government should take legal actions against the people, who want to bar the implementation of Road Transport Act 2018, said ‘Nirapad Sarak Chai’ Chairman Ilias Kanchan.“An evil quarter of transport industry has frequently barred the reformation of the outdated Motor Vehicles O...
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Bangladesh River Workers Federation call on an indefinite strike demanding 11-point including food allowance, stopping extortions in the river way from Saturday.As a result, all types of vessels, including passengers and cargo, remained suspended from the Ashuganj River Port. Ashuganj Ri...
As part of the government’s ongoing cleansing drive to free the country from corruption, irregularity and disorderliness, now combing operation is going to start in the transport sector. Intelligence agencies have already gathered detailed information regarding anarchy, mismanagement, indiscri...
Road transport owners and workers have vowed not to ply their vehicles on the road without legal papers. They pledge to follow the recently passed 'Road Transport Act 2018'.The pledge was made at a meeting of proper traffic management at the CMP conference room of Dampara Police Lines on Tue...
Four subcommittees have been formed to scrutinize whether there is any weakness in the ‘Road Transport Act’ and prepare an action plan to bring discipline on roads, reports BSS.The subcommittees were formed today at the first meeting of Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan-led taskforce design...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said the problems created in the transport sector due to strike have already been resolved as all types of vehicles are moving normally in the capital and its adjacent areas, reports BSS.“The transport crisis caused by enforcement of...
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Highway extortion has been blamed as the root cause behind price hike of essentials and rising trends in fares of passenger bus tickets.It is said that a section of transport leaders are engaged in realising huge amounts of taka every day in the name of different organisations of transport workers a...
Owners and workers of trucks and covered vans withdrawn the countrywide strike on Thursday following a successful meeting with home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, reports BSS.Earlier at about 900pm on Wednesday, Bangladesh Truck and Covered Van Goods Transport Owners and Workers Unity Council leaders he...
Transport workers in the district stayed off the road for the fourth consecutive day, causing immense sufferings to the commuters, although their leaders had announced to withdraw the strike.No long haul buses and goods-laden vehicles were seen plying on the road in Sherpur since this morning. Durin...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday urged transport owners and workers not to create unstable situation in the name of strike as it caused immense sufferings of the people, reports BSS.“Transport owners and workers should not enforce such strike as it causes immense...
People’s sufferings across the country on Wednesday mounted due to an undeclared indefinite transport strike. Transport owners and workers enforced the strike since Monday protesting against implementation of the Road Transport Act. However, in the afternoon, transport movement on different ro...
Most of the heavy road transports like trucks and buses are driven by unskilled and under aged drivers due to an acute shortages in the number of lawful and skilled drivers. According to Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), there are only 14 lakh registered drivers against 20 lakh registered motor...
Vegetable prices in the kitchen markets have seen a hike amid the transport workers strike over the new road transport law. The truck and covered van workers’ strike went into effect from Wednesday (Nov 20) causing prices of winter vegetables to go up by Tk 5 to Tk 20. However, onion prices ha...
Transport workers enforced buses in different districts of the country for third day protesting implementation of new road transport act, causing immense sufferings to people.People are moving for destination by different types of local vehicles with extra fare.On Wednesday, after visiting various p...
Bus, Truck and Covered Van workers continued their strike in Jashore for the 3rd consecutive day on Wednesday demanding reformation of Road Transport Act.No goods were released through Benapole port. The port has become workless. Production of various garment industries and industrial factories in t...
Three influential godfathers in the country’s transport sector are allegedly trying to create unrest in the sector for their personal interests.Intelligence sources hinted that this alliance, there the leaders of three major political parties, repeatedly creating problem in the transport secto...
An indefinite transport strike, enforced by transport owners and workers, paralysed the road communication network in different parts of the country on Tuesday. Although central leaders of transport owners and workers associations said they did not instruct their units to go for the strike, but many...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Monday stressed that the government will go ahead with the task of implementing the Road Transport Act, 2018 despite all difficulties. In this respect he urged all concerned not to go on strike over the newly enacted law.Quader, also general secr...
Bus owners and workers went on an indefinite strike in at least 10 southern districts, including Jhenaidah, Khulna, Jashore and Satkhira from Monday morning protesting against the implementation of the newly enacted Road Transport Act-2018. On the other hand, thousands of people have been suffering ...
The newly-enacted Road `Transport Act 2018’ is scheduled to be enforced from today, though neither police nor Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has yet updated their logistic capacity. Even the transport owners and employees are also not serious about the implementation of the n...
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