Professor Dr Mizanur Rahman, Vice Chancellor of Jagannath University
According to the laws of Bangladesh, there is no scope to call a transport strike without serving a prior notice. The road permit will be cancelled if a vehicle remains stationary on a road without any reasonable cause.
As per section 99 of the Motor vehicles Ordinance, 1983, no person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle shall cause or allow the vehicle to remain stationary in any public place, unless there is in the driver’s seat a person duly licensed to drive the vehicle or unless the mechanism has been stopped and a brake or brakes applied or such other measures taken as to ensure that the vehicle cannot accidentally be put in motion in the absence of the driver.
39 lakh drivers are required to have license to ply vehicles on the roads of our country. Of them, only 19 lakh drivers have license while the rest are plying vehicles without valid papers.
The transport owners and leaders of the transport workers must find a way out here. Drivers having no license are now afraid of plying vehicles. It will take many days if the protesting students want to bring discipline on the roads. Because, it is not possible overnight to have license for 20 lakh drivers.
You cannot halt the vehicles having fitness and valid papers. The students are now checking license and road permits. They should not take to the streets for doing the job. The students, who are now waging movement, have either vehicles of their own or their relatives. They should convince the owners of vehicles and force the drivers to have license.
Based on an interview by Mahbubul Islam, translated by Hosse Sohel.
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