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TANGAIL, May 22, 2025 (BSS) – The district administration here has decided to take 17 steps to ensure safe journey through the highway linking the central district with capital Dhaka during the Eid ul Azha holidays, officials said here today.

    A meeting with officials concerned including representing army and law enforcement agencies the district administration decided to debar movement of unfit vehicles and heavily loaded trucks, lorries and covered vans for six days before and after the Eid.

   The meeting chaired by deputy commissioner Sharifa Haque asked military to join hands with police and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) to enhance highway patrol to regulate traffics and prevent criminal like robbery, theft and extortion as part of the 17-pont measure.

   It simultaneously decided to illuminate the highway with adequate lights and keep gas stations open for vehicles, ensure readiness of fire and primary medical services to respond immediately to accidents, install highway side makeshift or mobile toilets and regulate passengers and bus operators so the travelers get onboard from designated bus stops alone.

   The meeting asked authorities to keep open the Jamuina Bridge toll plazas round the clock and increase number of booths and keep ready adequate wreckers to remove out of service vehicles to evade traffic congestion.

   It also decided to install CCTV cameras at important places on the highway to reduce traffic congestion.

   Lieutenant Colonel Naser Uddin Lyon represented military in the meeting joined by additional police superintendent Mahbub Rezwan, additional deputy commissioner M Abdullah Al Mamun, additional district magistrate M Mahbub Hossain, Jamuna Bridge’s executive engineer Ahsanul Islam Pabel and Roads and Highways Department executive engineer Synthia Ajmeri.