Parliamentary panel recommends transferring driving licence to home ministry
Friday, 4 September 2009
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Ministry has recommended transferring the vehicle driving licence and fitness certificate issuing authority to the Home
Ministry from Communications Ministry to avoid blaming each other for faults that lead to traffic congestion, particularly in the capital.
The standing committee chairman Abdus Salam briefed journalists of this at the Jatiya Sangsad Media Centre in the city Thursday, reports UNB.
The committee also recommended shifting of some traffic related works like setting up foot over bridge to the Home Ministry from the city corporation.
The standing committee chairman said the police have to check almost everything in the traffic system, including driving licence and fitness certificates, and they sometime cannot take action as the drivers have licence and fitness certificates (which may be fake).
If the authority of issuing driving licences and fitness certificates goes to the Home Ministry, it would be easy to identify the faults, ensure transparency and accountability and ultimately help in minimising traffic congestion, it was said at the briefing.
The chairman said the meeting also discussed the recent spate of terrorism in southwestern region of the country.
After listening to the IGP and the DG of RAB, he said the committee is certain that a special group of bandits and terrorists are engaged in such terror activities in exchange for money.
Replying to a question about reported involvement of ruling party leaders in recent bloody incidents in the southwestern part of the country, standing committee member Nurul Islam Sujon said the IGP and the RAB chief in their reports did not mention any involvement of political leaders in the recent incidents of violence.
The briefing was told that the committee accepted the IGP and RAB DG's statements.
The Standing committee chief said they have recommended to carry out appropriate operation to curb terrorism in the southwestern region of the country. The committee also asked for strengthening the existing 157 police camps in the region.
Asked about Wednesday's police attack on a demonstration of National Committee on Protecting Gas, Oil and Natural Resources in the city, Salam said the incident was unwarranted and should not have taken place.
The committee asked the Home Ministry to remain alert to avoid recurrence of such incidents in future, he said.
Ministry from Communications Ministry to avoid blaming each other for faults that lead to traffic congestion, particularly in the capital.
The standing committee chairman Abdus Salam briefed journalists of this at the Jatiya Sangsad Media Centre in the city Thursday, reports UNB.
The committee also recommended shifting of some traffic related works like setting up foot over bridge to the Home Ministry from the city corporation.
The standing committee chairman said the police have to check almost everything in the traffic system, including driving licence and fitness certificates, and they sometime cannot take action as the drivers have licence and fitness certificates (which may be fake).
If the authority of issuing driving licences and fitness certificates goes to the Home Ministry, it would be easy to identify the faults, ensure transparency and accountability and ultimately help in minimising traffic congestion, it was said at the briefing.
The chairman said the meeting also discussed the recent spate of terrorism in southwestern region of the country.
After listening to the IGP and the DG of RAB, he said the committee is certain that a special group of bandits and terrorists are engaged in such terror activities in exchange for money.
Replying to a question about reported involvement of ruling party leaders in recent bloody incidents in the southwestern part of the country, standing committee member Nurul Islam Sujon said the IGP and the RAB chief in their reports did not mention any involvement of political leaders in the recent incidents of violence.
The briefing was told that the committee accepted the IGP and RAB DG's statements.
The Standing committee chief said they have recommended to carry out appropriate operation to curb terrorism in the southwestern region of the country. The committee also asked for strengthening the existing 157 police camps in the region.
Asked about Wednesday's police attack on a demonstration of National Committee on Protecting Gas, Oil and Natural Resources in the city, Salam said the incident was unwarranted and should not have taken place.
The committee asked the Home Ministry to remain alert to avoid recurrence of such incidents in future, he said.