Today is National Safe Roads Day. The day is being celebrated for the first time in the country through various programs.
This year the theme of the day is ‘Pledge of students, safe roads for all’. On the occasion of the day, President Md. Sahabuddin and Principal Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus gave separate messages.
In his speech, the President said, safe and improved road transport system is one of the determinants of a welfare state. In order to ensure road safety, along with infrastructure development, law enforcement and law enforcement must be encouraged.
He said, recently the participation of students in controlling traffic and decongesting roads in different parts of the country has been widely appreciated. I believe that the effective participation of properly trained students and youth in ensuring road safety will play an important role in preventing road accidents, chaos and irregularities.
Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus said that the current interim government is making every effort to ensure safe roads in order to meet the expectations of the mass movement of students demanding safe roads in 2018 by challenging the failure of traditional road management.
He said that it will be much easier to meet the expectations of safe roads if the road transport owners and workers realize that faulty vehicles, unskilled drivers without driving licenses, illegal vehicles pose a risk to road safety.
BRTA has undertaken various programs on the occasion of National Safe Road Day. A discussion meeting has been organized today at Osmani Memorial Auditorium on the occasion of the day.
Muhammad Fawzul Kabir Khan, advisor to the Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges will be present as the chief guest in the discussion meeting.
Apart from this, Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan, Advisor to the Ministry of Youth and Sports will be present as a special guest.
Almost three decades ago on this day, Jahanara Kanchan was killed in a road accident at Chandnaish near Chittagong on her way to her husband Elias Kanchan who was shooting in Bandarban. Actor Elias Kanchan has been agitating for safe roads since then. With the slogan ‘The path should be of peace, not of death’, the social organization – Safe Roads Wanted (Nischa) was formed. In continuation of this movement, the day is being celebrated nationally since 2017.
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