Abul presides, Shahjahan rules the meeting; 5-hour discussion produces little The National Road Safety Council, chaired by Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain, was largely dominated by Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan yesterday and it failed to decide on anything significant on road safety. The five-hour meeting discussed issues which have been talked about over and over ... Read more
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Road safety directives fall on deaf ears
The government’s directives to ensure road safety seem to have fallen on deaf ears with traffic on highways becoming more chaotic and travel riskier across the country. No initiatives have apparently been taken so far to carry out the order of the prime minister and the decisions of the cabinet committee on law and order ... Read more
One silver lining
Textbooks to have road safety issues The government will incorporate a chapter on road safety and road use in primary and secondary textbooks next year to raise awareness about it. The primary and mass education ministry formed a panel to prepare contents on road safety and road use for textbooks after 40 people, mostly students, ... Read more
Lax monitoring makes highways death traps
Road crashes kill 34 every day, says WB survey Lax monitoring and non-implementation of the laws on reckless driving have made both highways and streets death traps where at least 34 people fall prey to deadly crashes every day. Road-safety experts blame successive governments for not paying heed to fatal accidents, which have claimed mostly ... Read more
People deserve safe roads
Professor Ahsan tells New Age ROAD safety remains a neglected issue during all governments, irrespective of their political identity, Professor Hasib Mohammed Ahsan, director of Accident Research Institute under Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, said Tuesday. ‘The situation has become very bad and is getting worse, day by day. There is hardly any enforcement