UNB: Giving priority to rail and waterways’ development can be an effective solution to arrest road accidents, said Poribesh Bachao Andolon (POBA), an environmental advocacy group, yesterday at a programme.
POBA organised a discussion programme titled “Deaths and Anarchy on Road: Reasons and Solutions” at its main office in the city.
Presiding over the programme, POBA Chairman Abu Naser Khan said, ensuring road safety is impossible without ensuring proper traffic and transport management.
He alleged that road-based communication system has crippled the entire transport system.
The main discussant of the programme, Shahidul Alam, convenor of POBA’s team for Safe Roads Movement, said, training should be imparted to those who work in roads and highways as well as the drivers.
Urging to amend the acts regarding road safety, he said, “We are still following the act passed in 1983 in this sector, where provision of compensation amount is Tk 20,000 only.”
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