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PM for training to people on traffic rules from school-life
DHAKA, May 25, 2019 (BSS) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today stressed the
need for imparting training to the people on traffic rules and regulations
from childhood or school-life to make them aware of using roads and their
safety.
“I personally belief, it is really needed to give training (to the people)
on traffic rules and regulations from childhood or school life to make them
cautious about using roads and their safety as well,” she said.
The premier was opening the four-lane second Meghna and second Gumti
bridges on Dhaka-Chottagram Highway through a video conference from her
official Ganabhaban residence here.
She also inaugurated the country’s largest Konabari Flyover and Chandra
Flyover, Kaliakair, Deohata, Mirzapur and Gharinda underpass and Kadda-1 and
Bimail bridges on the Joydebpur-Chandra-Tangail-Elenga Highway under the
SASEC Road Link Project.
She later launched the new intercity train named “Panchagarh Express” on
the Dhaka-Panchagarh route.
The premier called upon the authorities concerned of educational
institutions particularly the schools to take their own initiatives to help
their students to cross the roads towards the institutions at school
breakups.
“You (authorities of educational institutions) should take the initiative
to engage your own people for assisting your students in crossing the roads
while law enforcers and traffic policemen will extend support to this
endeavor,” she asked the school authorities.
In this context, she referred that authorities in abroad stand with
placard to help their students to use the roads adjacent to the educational
institutions.
The premier also called upon the drivers to drive cautiously keeping speed
limit of their vehicles under control and advised the pedestrians to use
foot-over bridges and underpasses and be careful while crossing the roads to
reduce the road accidents.
Mentioning the enactment of Road Transport Act, 2018 by her government and
starting the implementation of the law to reduce the road accidents, the
premier said, “It is also necessary to impart the drivers with proper
training on driving and traffic rules.”
The government has taken initiatives to train the drivers at upazila levels
alongside setting up places for relaxation of drivers besides highways and
roads.
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader gave welcome address on
the occasion while Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque and
Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque were present on the dais.
Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Hiroyasu Izumi also spoke on the
occasion. Indonesian Ambassador in Dhaka Rina P. Soemarno was present at that
time.
PM’s Principal Secretary Md Nojibur Rahman moderated the inaugural ceremony
while Secretary of Road Transport and Highways Division Md Nazrul Islam gave
brief pictorial and video presentation of the uplift schemes on the occasion.
Cabinet members, PM’s advisers, lawmakers, high civil and military
officials were present on the occasion.
The prime minister later talked to the cross section of people including
public representatives, freedom fighters, government officials, students,
teachers and beneficiaries of different projects.
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