BSS, Rangpur :
Creating public awareness on safer use of roads along with ensuring professional skill of drivers and abiding by traffic rules would avert road accidents in the country, said speakers at a discussion here on Tuesday.
Drivers, vehicle owners and common people should be aware of the severe consequences of road accidents and they have to follow the traffic rules to prevent road accidents.
Officials and leaders of motor owners’ and workers’ associations made the observation at a post-rally discussion held on the Deputy Commissioner’s Office premises here in observance of the National Road Safety Day-2019.
The district administration, Roads and Highways Department (RHD) and Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) jointly organised the rally followed by the discussion to create public awareness on road safety to reduce road accidents.
Earlier, hundreds of people, including government officials, drivers, conductors, helpers, leaders of road transport workers’ and motor owners’ associations, rovers, scouts, and students and teachers participated in the rally that paraded the city streets.
Presided over by Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Md. Arafat Rahman, Executive Engineer of RHD AKM Shafikuzzaman, Deputy Director (Engineering) of Rangpur Circle of BRTA Md. Ashrafuzzaman, Assistant Police Commissioner (Traffic-North) Farhad Imrul Kayes, Acting President of District Motor Owners’ Association Azizul Islam Raju and General Secretary of Rangpur unit of ‘Nirapod Sarak Chai’ Sajjad Hossain Shahin, addressed the occasion. The speakers said lack of public awareness, inadequate skill of some drivers, violation of traffic rules, faulty vehicles, roadside hat-bazaars, using mobile phones while driving are the major rea sons behind road accidents.
They mentioned that illegal occupation of the roads, drying of crops on the roads and overtaking competitions also cause road accidents taking heavy tollof human lives.
Deputy Director of BRTA Ashrafuzzaman laid emphasis on providing training to drivers on driving and traffic rules and obeying traffic rules strictly by all concerned to avoid road accidents.
BSS from Rajshahi adds: Highest importance should be given on enhancing drivers’ skills and following traffic law for stopping road accidents.
There is no alternative to create public awareness to prevent road accidents, speakers told at a post-rally discussion here on Tuesday. Rajshahi Circle of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) and Deputy Commissioner Office jointly organized the discussion at Nanking Darbar Hall to mark the National Road Safety Day-2019.
‘Jiboner Age Jibika Noy, Sarak Durghatana Ar Noy’ (Livelihood is not before life, no more road accident) is the main slogan of the day.
Deputy Commissioner Hamidul Haque, Superintendent of Police Md Shahidullah, Deputy Commissioner (Traffic) of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police Anirban Chakma, Civil Surgeon Dr Mijanur Rahman, Executive Engineer of the Department of Roads and Highway Md Shamsuzzoha and BRTA Divisional Deputy Director Sheikh Ashrakur Rahman addressed the meeting. Additional District Magistrate Abu Aslam was in the chair. The discussants unequivocally called for strict enforcement of traffic rules to reduce road accidents.
Hamidul Haque told the meeting that the government has taken initiative to establish training institute in each district to bring the drivers under training and refreshers training round the year.
Step has also been taken to incorporate the issue of road accident and its causes and prevention in the course-curriculum besides other various programmes to reduce the country’s road accidents by 50 percent within the next 15 years, he added. BRTA Deputy Director Ashrakur Rahman said the country is experiencing over 5,000 road accidents every year that claim over 4,000 lives and injure a huge number of people. Around 200 persons comprising government officials, human rights activists, leaders of road transport workers and representatives of transport owners associations were present at the discussion.
Creating public awareness on safer use of roads along with ensuring professional skill of drivers and abiding by traffic rules would avert road accidents in the country, said speakers at a discussion here on Tuesday.
Drivers, vehicle owners and common people should be aware of the severe consequences of road accidents and they have to follow the traffic rules to prevent road accidents.
Officials and leaders of motor owners’ and workers’ associations made the observation at a post-rally discussion held on the Deputy Commissioner’s Office premises here in observance of the National Road Safety Day-2019.
The district administration, Roads and Highways Department (RHD) and Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) jointly organised the rally followed by the discussion to create public awareness on road safety to reduce road accidents.
Earlier, hundreds of people, including government officials, drivers, conductors, helpers, leaders of road transport workers’ and motor owners’ associations, rovers, scouts, and students and teachers participated in the rally that paraded the city streets.
Presided over by Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Md. Arafat Rahman, Executive Engineer of RHD AKM Shafikuzzaman, Deputy Director (Engineering) of Rangpur Circle of BRTA Md. Ashrafuzzaman, Assistant Police Commissioner (Traffic-North) Farhad Imrul Kayes, Acting President of District Motor Owners’ Association Azizul Islam Raju and General Secretary of Rangpur unit of ‘Nirapod Sarak Chai’ Sajjad Hossain Shahin, addressed the occasion. The speakers said lack of public awareness, inadequate skill of some drivers, violation of traffic rules, faulty vehicles, roadside hat-bazaars, using mobile phones while driving are the major rea sons behind road accidents.
They mentioned that illegal occupation of the roads, drying of crops on the roads and overtaking competitions also cause road accidents taking heavy tollof human lives.
Deputy Director of BRTA Ashrafuzzaman laid emphasis on providing training to drivers on driving and traffic rules and obeying traffic rules strictly by all concerned to avoid road accidents.
BSS from Rajshahi adds: Highest importance should be given on enhancing drivers’ skills and following traffic law for stopping road accidents.
There is no alternative to create public awareness to prevent road accidents, speakers told at a post-rally discussion here on Tuesday. Rajshahi Circle of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) and Deputy Commissioner Office jointly organized the discussion at Nanking Darbar Hall to mark the National Road Safety Day-2019.
‘Jiboner Age Jibika Noy, Sarak Durghatana Ar Noy’ (Livelihood is not before life, no more road accident) is the main slogan of the day.
Deputy Commissioner Hamidul Haque, Superintendent of Police Md Shahidullah, Deputy Commissioner (Traffic) of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police Anirban Chakma, Civil Surgeon Dr Mijanur Rahman, Executive Engineer of the Department of Roads and Highway Md Shamsuzzoha and BRTA Divisional Deputy Director Sheikh Ashrakur Rahman addressed the meeting. Additional District Magistrate Abu Aslam was in the chair. The discussants unequivocally called for strict enforcement of traffic rules to reduce road accidents.
Hamidul Haque told the meeting that the government has taken initiative to establish training institute in each district to bring the drivers under training and refreshers training round the year.
Step has also been taken to incorporate the issue of road accident and its causes and prevention in the course-curriculum besides other various programmes to reduce the country’s road accidents by 50 percent within the next 15 years, he added. BRTA Deputy Director Ashrakur Rahman said the country is experiencing over 5,000 road accidents every year that claim over 4,000 lives and injure a huge number of people. Around 200 persons comprising government officials, human rights activists, leaders of road transport workers and representatives of transport owners associations were present at the discussion.
