Speakers at a rally in the Chittagong city on Wednesday called on the government to take necessary steps to solve ongoing transport crisis in the city and adjacent areas.
They also criticised the role of the government as it failed to control the arbitrary transport fare.
They also said that some unscrupulous transport service providers in collusion with the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority, Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation and Chittagong Metropolitan Police were harassing the passengers.
They asked the commuters as well as the city people to unite against transport service providers.
They were addressing a rally and a human chain organised by the Civic Committee to Resist Arbitrary Bus Fare and Harassment of Passengers in front of the Chittagong Press Club on Wednesday morning.
Bhasani Foundation president Siddiqul Islam presided over the rally that was addressed, among others, by the civic body general secretary Shitu Ashraf, Ganasanghati Andolan Chittagong district co-ordinator Hasan Maruf Rumi, leader Shahid Shimul, Chittagong University fine arts teacher Showmen Das, Communist Party of Bangladesh leader Amitabh Sen and Bangladesh Students' Federation leader Mohammad Rumi.
The speakers said that the transport owners at first hike the fare in May on the pretext of rise in fuel price and they again increased the fare in July in the name of launching 'counter service' in the city.
Siddiqul Islam said that the newly introduced counter service failed to provide quality service to the commuters and it just prolonged the suffering as people now had to wait in queues for hours.
He also said that the government should introduce more services for the commuters under its own supervision.
Source : New Age
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