About half a million unskilled drivers are driving motorised vehicles across the country either using fake or no licence at all, communications minister Abul Hossain said Tuesday.
He told parliament in the question time that this could happen because the vehicles by far outnumber trained or skilled drivers in the country.
Replying to a question from Opu Ukil, a legislator of ruling Awami League, the minister, however, said that unskilled drivers at the wheels were not alone responsible for the road accidents.
He said that there were some other reasons responsible for the accidents too.
He said the government had taken a number of steps against drivers doing the job using fake licences.
He said that Bangladesh Road Transport Authority mobile courts were in action across the country to check the problem.
He said that the government had simplified the licence obtaining system to encourage the drivers to collect genuine driving licence.
He said that the authorities were also campaigning to create awareness about the easier system of obtaining genuine driving licences.
The minister said that the government opened one-stop service centres in 35 district towns under a special programme to provide driving licences to the drivers of CNG-run auto-rickshaws and motorbikes.
Source: New Age
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