JS body meets on traffic jam today
Thursday, 27 August 2009
FE Report
The parliamentary standing committee on communication convened a meeting of its members and relevant authorities today (Thursday) primarily to discuss the traffic situation in the capital.
Sources said the committee meeting will be chaired by its chairman Sheikh Mojibur Rahman. Committee members and other agencies including Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), Dhaka Transport Coordination Board (DTCB), Roads and Highways Department (RHD) have been asked to attend the meeting, the top agenda of which will be city's traffic jam.
"Agenda of the sixth standing committee meeting will mainly be on the city's traffic jam situation," said an official.
Sources said the communication ministry has meantime prepared a report on the city's traffic congestion and will submit it in the meeting.
The other agencies to be presented in the meeting include Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA), Bangladesh Railway and Bangladesh Road and Transport Corporation.
Being a member of the transport coordinating committee Shipping minister Shahjahan Khan will also be invited to attend.
Though traffic jam has links with the increase in the number of vehicles among other things, the Dhaka City Corporation and WASA members were left out, a source said and added poor drainage system resulted in suffocating traffic jam during the last heavy rainfall in the city.
Sources said that Dhaka Metropolitan police and Traffic Police, responsible for traffic management and control, were also not invited in the meeting.
To improve the situation, DMP meantime launched a special drive to bar vehicles of 20 years old and penalised those which failed to present legal documents. It has also imposed restriction on indiscriminate parking particularly in front of schools and colleges and shopping centres.
Official sources said the PSC is supposed to discuss the implementation and progress of the decisions taken during its last meeting and other issues including recovery of railway's occupied land and Asian highways but those may not be highlighted because of the severity of the city's traffic jam.
The parliamentary standing committee on communication convened a meeting of its members and relevant authorities today (Thursday) primarily to discuss the traffic situation in the capital.
Sources said the committee meeting will be chaired by its chairman Sheikh Mojibur Rahman. Committee members and other agencies including Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), Dhaka Transport Coordination Board (DTCB), Roads and Highways Department (RHD) have been asked to attend the meeting, the top agenda of which will be city's traffic jam.
"Agenda of the sixth standing committee meeting will mainly be on the city's traffic jam situation," said an official.
Sources said the communication ministry has meantime prepared a report on the city's traffic congestion and will submit it in the meeting.
The other agencies to be presented in the meeting include Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA), Bangladesh Railway and Bangladesh Road and Transport Corporation.
Being a member of the transport coordinating committee Shipping minister Shahjahan Khan will also be invited to attend.
Though traffic jam has links with the increase in the number of vehicles among other things, the Dhaka City Corporation and WASA members were left out, a source said and added poor drainage system resulted in suffocating traffic jam during the last heavy rainfall in the city.
Sources said that Dhaka Metropolitan police and Traffic Police, responsible for traffic management and control, were also not invited in the meeting.
To improve the situation, DMP meantime launched a special drive to bar vehicles of 20 years old and penalised those which failed to present legal documents. It has also imposed restriction on indiscriminate parking particularly in front of schools and colleges and shopping centres.
Official sources said the PSC is supposed to discuss the implementation and progress of the decisions taken during its last meeting and other issues including recovery of railway's occupied land and Asian highways but those may not be highlighted because of the severity of the city's traffic jam.