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{"id":96167,"date":"2023-05-20T10:56:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T04:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhakamirror.com\/?p=96167"},"modified":"2023-05-20T11:11:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T05:11:24","slug":"economic-life-of-buses-fixed-at-20yrs-goods-vehicles-at-25yrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhakamirror.com\/news\/other-headlines\/economic-life-of-buses-fixed-at-20yrs-goods-vehicles-at-25yrs\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic life of buses fixed at 20yrs, goods vehicles at 25yrs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
News Desk : dhakamirror.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The government fixed the economic life of buses and minibuses at 20 years and that for goods-laden vehicles, including trucks and covered vans, at 25 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this regard, the Roads and Highways Division on Wednesday issued a circular which would be effective following a gazette notification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2010, the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority banned buses over 20 years and trucks over 25 years on the roads of the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many old and dilapidated vehicles, however, continue to run on other roads in the country, including on the national highways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Wednesday circular also said that the economic lives had been fixed following the Section 36 of the Road Transport Act 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the section, the government or any authority approved by the government can fix economic life of any vehicle by issuing a circular in a public gazette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The BRTA website shows that the number of total registered motor vehicles under it till April this year was 57.1 lakh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The authority, however, does not have any statistics as to how many of the total vehicles or of the unfit vehicles have gone past their economic life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On August 3, 2015, the High Court issued a directive to the road transport ministry, asking that the police must keep unfit motor vehicles off the roads across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Road safety experts and activists blamed old and dilapidated vehicles as a major reason for increasing road crashes in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"