DHAKA, Aug 20, 2018 (BSS) – The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has directed
the Rajdhani Unnayan Katripakhya (RAJUK) to take legal actions against those
multistoried buildings and shopping malls which squeezed their parking zones
by violating their approved designs.
The directives came from a high-profile meeting on road safety held at the
PMO on Sunday with Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary Md Nojibur Rahman in
the chair.
The meeting was informed that all authorities concerned have submitted
their work plans on ensuring road safety and discipline on the highways to
the PMO.
Necessary arrangements will be made very soon in the light of these work
plans, the meeting was informed.
The meeting was also apprised that the Dhaka Metropolitan Police(DMP) has
already started enforcement of the laws strictly against violators of traffic
rules, while the BRTA has begun implementing their work plan after framing.
The meeting has also decided to engage the scouts and girl guides to make
the students and their guardians aware about traffic rules.
It was decided at the meeting that a leaflet containing important traffic
signs, the reasons for road accidents and the responsibility of the
pedestrians, the drivers of vehicles and motorbikes, passengers and the
transport owners will be distributed among students of all educational
institutions through the scouts and girl guides.
Then the scouts and the girl guides will take signatures of the guardians
about obeying the directives of the leaflet and submit those to their
respective educational institutions.
Besides, the meeting issued directives on reading out the leaflet before
the Jumma prayers at all mosques of the country, publishing the information
of the leaflet in the teachers’ portal and making the students aware about
the traffic rule in their daily assembly.
Apart from this, directives have also been given on arrangements for health
tests of the drivers through local administration and discussing the traffic
rule in the “mothers gathering”.
Apart from the officials of the PMO, the officials from the education
ministry, the DMP and Bangladesh Scouts were present at the meeting, while
several divisional-level officials of eight divisions and the officials of
the Scouts and Girl Guides Association were connected through a
videoconference.