Friday, November 22, 2024

Fake driving licences to be legalised

The government may issue driving licences to individuals now in possession of fake ones after relaxing the related rules, Communications Minister Obaidul Quader said yesterday. He was speaking to leading transport owners and workers at a views-exchange meeting on “Problems and prospects in the transport sector” at the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority office in

Over 30,000 licences issued without proper tests: BRTA

The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority has issued 30,000 driving licences mostly to drivers of buses and trucks on ‘easy terms’ without holding proper tests since 2006. The authorities in the period issued about three lakh driving licences, according to an affidavit submitted by the agency’s chairman Md Ayubur Rahman Khan to the High Court on