Only 16 out of 56,410 get fitness renewed

Only 16 out of 56,410 unfit motor vehicles of different government and non-government agencies and owners got their fitness certificates renewed after authorities gave them one month till April 30 for the task, said officials. 
Bangladesh Road Transport Authority also said that no agencies and owners informed them about any permanently off-street vehicles during the same period. 
Till March this year, BRTA found that 3,740 motor vehicles, registered under government institutions such as Bangladesh Police, ministries, departments and projects, and 52,670 non-government motor vehicles did not have their fitness certificates renewed in the past 10 years or more.
On its website, BRTA uploaded the lists on March 29 and published public advertisement on newspapers
and on television channels asking the owners to renew fitness certificates by this April or their vehicles would be announced ‘write-off’. 
The owners were also asked to inform the authority about their permanently off-street vehicles.
BRTA director for operation Sitangshu Shekhar Biswas told New Age on Sunday that since April 30 during checking the lists they found 16 registration numbers absent. 
‘So we can assume that the owners of these vehicles have renewed the fitness certificates,’ he said. 
But they did not get any single information about how many vehicles in the lists had been permanently off-street, he said. 
In a recent meeting held at the road transport and bridges ministry, decisions were made to announce 
the rest vehicles ‘write-off’ and send the lists to law enforcers for taking legal action. 
The ministry has also decided to take legal action against owners of these vehicles, collect dues and continue the process of write-off. 
BRTA was scheduled to send the registration numbers to all of its circle offices which would then publish advertisement in local newspapers announcing the vehicles as permanently off-street. 
Among these unfit government vehicles more than 500 were registered under the name of Inspector General of Police and about 400 under superintendents of police. 
Some of these were 20-25-year-old vehicles, having no updated documents and still being used in their duties. 
The High Court on August 3, 2015 had asked the authorities to remove all unfit motor vehicles from roads but the government institutions themselves, let alone others, are not following the directive.
According to BRTA website, there are a total of 34.19 lakh registered motor vehicles in the country as of March this year. 

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net