The parliamentary standing committee on the labour and employment ministry on Wednesday blamed the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority for frequent traffic accidents.
The committee at a meeting also set up a sub-committee to investigate unauthorised toll collection and extortion in the transport sector by associations of transport workers and owners in different places, sources attending the meeting said.
The sources said that the meeting had discussed road communications and frequent traffic accidents in recent times. It observed that irregularities and negligence of the road transport agency in issuing driving licences to properly trained drivers was responsible for the accidents, the sources said.
Expressing their concerns about the frequent accidents, the committee members said that the agency had issued registration for 44,000 vehicles on an average a year but it issues only 11,000 driving licences a year, which prompted untrained people to run vehicles that cause such accidents.
They recommended that the government should take effective measures in this regard.
The committee also observed that the associations of transport workers, transport owners and other quarters were involved in unauthorised toll collection and extortion which created indiscipline in the transport sector.
It also formed a three member sub-committee headed by its chairman Israfil Alam to investigate unauthorised toll collection and asked the committee to submit a detailed report in six weeks with recommendations.
Other members of the committee are Shahuduzzaman Sarker and Rawshan Jahan Sathi.
'Associations of transport owners and workers are realising unauthorised toll indiscriminately which created indiscipline in the transport sector,' the committee chair, Israfil Alam, told reporters after the meeting.
He said that as per the labour law, the decision for collecting any tolls should be approved at the annual general meeting of the association but they were collecting tolls at their will.
'We have formed a sub-committee to investigate the matter,' the committee chair said, adding that the committee would investigate the toll collection and other violations of labour law by transport owners and workers.
The committee members criticised the transport owners for enforcing strike without notice in violation of Section 209 of the labour law.
The meeting also requested the ministry to take necessary measures to ensure wages and allowance of workers in different sectors including apparel industries before Eid.
Committee members Monnujan Sufian, also the state minister for labour and employment, Nasim Osman, Nani Gopal Mandal and Rawshan Jhan Sathi and high officials of the ministry attended the meeting.
Source : New Age
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