A parliamentary standing committee on Tuesday asked the government to immediately stop issuing of driving licence to unskilled drivers.
The committee on the ministry of communication at a meeting also asked the government to set up the needed number of driving training centres to cut down the increasing number of road accidents in the country.
At least two members of the committee pulled up the communications minister for not caring to maintain transparency in project implementation and personnel recruitment.
They requested him to ensure transparency in all actions in the interest of the image of the government, committee sources said after the meeting.
The meeting condoled the loss of life of 43 school boys in a road accident at Mirsarai in Chittagong on July 1, they said.
They asked the government to take effective steps to cut down road accidents.
The committee also asked the authorities to set up more speed-breakers across the country to cut down accidents.
The committee chairman Sheikh Mujibur Rahman said that approximately 6,000 people were killed in road accidents a year due to faults of the drivers.
He said that most of the drivers had no proper training and genuine licence.
He said that the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority often issued driving licence to inexpert drivers.
He asked the government to rectify the irregularities.
He also asked for setting up more driving training centres to meet the requirement.
The committee suggested a reduction in the number of speed breakers on the highways and to increase them in the cities.
It decided to make an on the spot evaluation of location of the speed breakers across the country.
Committee members Omor Faruk Chowdhury and Golam Maula Rony pulled up the minister, Syed Abul Hossain for ignoring transparency in project implementation and personnel recruitment.
Faurk said that raised the question because the minister directly intervened in the recruitment of class four employees and in the appointing a private company as consultants though it had failed in its tasks in the past.
Omor Faruk told New Age he drew a blank from the chief engineer and general manager of Railway about the recruitment of an MLSS and a peon.
He said that asked him to get the information from the minister.
Omor Faruk said that the minister also failed to give proper answer to his queries about his involvement in petty issues like this.
Rony told New Age that he drew attention of the minister to the attitude of the ministry officials towards lawmakers.
He said that the officials do not show due respect to the lawmakers.
He told the minister that it calls for a change.
The committee also decided to review, at its next meeting, the performance of the civil servants who had confessed their corruption to the now defunct Truth Commission.
It constituted a three-member sub committee headed by Zillul Hakim to probe into the incident of appointment of Canarail Consultant Limited as consultants although it had failed to properly discharge its duty in the past.
It constituted another sub-committee headed by Opu Ukil to inquire into the irregularities in the BRTA during the year 2005-2006, meeting sources said.
Source : New Age
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