BSS :
The National Road Safety Day will be observed in the country today.
This year’s theme of the day is “Gatisima Mene Choli, Sarak Durghotona Rodh Kori” (Let us abide by speed limit, prevent road accident”.
President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued separate messages on the eve of the National Road Safety Day.
The President, in his message, said the number of vehicles on streets is rapidly increasing with the increase of developed road infrastructure in Bangladesh.
Uncontrolled speed of these vehicles is one of the major reasons of road accident, he said adding that it is essential to abide by speed limit to stop loss of life and property.
In this regard, he said, the theme of this year is a perfect and time-befitting one.
Developed communication infrastructure and sufficient transport services are perquisites to sustainable socio-economic development, he said.
Abdul Hamid said it is very important to minimize transport cost and valuable time through building an advanced communication system in the perspectives of globalization.
In her message, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said before the independence, there was no notable road network in the country.
She said the Greatest Bangalee of All Time, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman took different programme and plans to build a modern road transport system in the war-ravaged Bangladesh. Bangabandhu’s government formed Planning Commission and adopted the first five-year plan, she said.
Following the footprint of Father of the Nation, she said, the Awami League government has been taking up and implementing multi-dimensional plans to build and implement a modern and time-befitting road and highway infrastructure.
The Premier said her government has taken different programme for developing and modernizing road infrastructure to make the roads safer and decrease causality of road accident to half.
