Md Joynal Abedin Khan :
Large number of poor and low income people are visibly using roof-tops of buses and trains, uncovered trucks and pick-up vans and other transports to come back to the capital from their homes in villages and towns after celebrating the Eid-ul-Azha.
They generally opt for the sub-standard vehicles as they have no ability to pay higher price for luxury transports unlike the rich and influential persons.
The poor pay the meagre fare for the roof-tops of buses, trains and trucks and pick-up vans.
The ill-fated people also come back to the city boarding on long-distance route buses without taking any seat.
The transport workers, ticket countermen and a vested quarters of law enforcers and railway staff also take extra money from passengers to provide journey facilities.
Jatri Kalyan Samiti sources said that around 60 lakh people are taking risk of their lives to travel by transport at cheap cost.
Afia Sultana Moni, a job seeker, told The New Nation on Tuesday, “I did not get any ticket of bus and train to take part in a government bank recruitment test likely to be held on August 31. But I bought a ticket by paying Tk 2300 from a bus staff whereas the rate is Tk 550.”
Shamima Akter Soma, a garment worker, said, “I boarded on a pick-up van on Monday only paying Tk 300, while one of my banker cousins got a luxury bus ticket by paying Tk 2200.”
Monir Hossain, a banker who returned from Chattogram by train, said: “I have come back to Dhaka on Saturday night as my office reopened on Sunday. A GRP official took Tk 12,00 for a seat in the train.”
Md Shorab Hossain alias Tuhin said, “All in luxury buses tickets went to the rich and influential persons.”
Amzad Hossain, Director General of Bangladesh Railway, said, “We have instructed the employees to make the passengers’ journey comfortable.”
Khandaker Enayet Ullah, Secretary General, Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Samity, said, “We instructed all our members to follow the government rules.”
Asked about extra fares, Mosharraf Hossain, an official of Hanif Paribahan, said, “We are charging extra fare as the return journey goes almost empty.”
Large number of poor and low income people are visibly using roof-tops of buses and trains, uncovered trucks and pick-up vans and other transports to come back to the capital from their homes in villages and towns after celebrating the Eid-ul-Azha.
They generally opt for the sub-standard vehicles as they have no ability to pay higher price for luxury transports unlike the rich and influential persons.
The poor pay the meagre fare for the roof-tops of buses, trains and trucks and pick-up vans.
The ill-fated people also come back to the city boarding on long-distance route buses without taking any seat.
The transport workers, ticket countermen and a vested quarters of law enforcers and railway staff also take extra money from passengers to provide journey facilities.
Jatri Kalyan Samiti sources said that around 60 lakh people are taking risk of their lives to travel by transport at cheap cost.
Afia Sultana Moni, a job seeker, told The New Nation on Tuesday, “I did not get any ticket of bus and train to take part in a government bank recruitment test likely to be held on August 31. But I bought a ticket by paying Tk 2300 from a bus staff whereas the rate is Tk 550.”
Shamima Akter Soma, a garment worker, said, “I boarded on a pick-up van on Monday only paying Tk 300, while one of my banker cousins got a luxury bus ticket by paying Tk 2200.”
Monir Hossain, a banker who returned from Chattogram by train, said: “I have come back to Dhaka on Saturday night as my office reopened on Sunday. A GRP official took Tk 12,00 for a seat in the train.”
Md Shorab Hossain alias Tuhin said, “All in luxury buses tickets went to the rich and influential persons.”
Amzad Hossain, Director General of Bangladesh Railway, said, “We have instructed the employees to make the passengers’ journey comfortable.”
Khandaker Enayet Ullah, Secretary General, Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Samity, said, “We instructed all our members to follow the government rules.”
Asked about extra fares, Mosharraf Hossain, an official of Hanif Paribahan, said, “We are charging extra fare as the return journey goes almost empty.”
