Students’ meeting with DNCC to resume Apr 04

Students' meeting with the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) on the road safety issue ended inconclusive on Thursday against the backdrop of a massive fire incident that occurred in the capital’s Banani area.

The meeting will resume on April 04, said the Corporation’s Chief Executive Officer Md Abdul Hai at the DNCC headquarters on Thursday.

Representatives from BRTA and other government agencies attended the meeting with DNCC Mayor Md Atiqul Islam in the chair.

BRTA Chairman Mohammed Moshiar Rahman and Joint Police Commissioner (Traffic-North) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, among others, were present.  

The DNCC, BRTA and other agencies also presented their plans to ensure discipline on the city roads.

Students also discussed the reasons for the chaotic condition on the city roads and laid emphasis on bringing discipline on the roads within shortest possible time.

They alleged that they have witnessed various irregularities like encroachment on the pavements, which are to be blamed for road crashes.

The agencies concerned are putting efforts to ensure discipline on the roads but things will not change overnight, they observed.

The DNCC plan revealed that it took initiatives to construct 56 footbridges and underpasses, 31 speed bumps, 114 crossings and to set up 426 traffic signs and 52 passenger sheds in the city with an immediate effect.

Students from different public and private universities burst into protest taking to the streets after Abrar Ahmed, a student of Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP), died as a bus ran him over at Nodda near Bashundhara Residential area in the city on the morning of March 19.

The agitating students placed a set of demands, including ensuring capital punishment for the driver of the killer vehicle, withdrawing all buses having no fitness certificate and setting up footbridges, underpasses and speed breakers at all vulnerable points, with a seven-day ultimatum, that ended yesterday (Thursday).

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