BRTA starts conducting drives to enforce Road Transport Act 2018
The executive magistrates of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority on Monday started conducting mobile courts in Dhaka and Chattogram cities to enforce the new Road Transport Act 2018.
Road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader, at a press conference at his secretariat office in Dhaka on Monday, requested the transport organisations not to observe any strike protesting at the implementation of the new law.
Earlier, on Sunday, the government began enforcing the new law amid strikes called by transport workers in Kushtia and Jashore.
Obaidul Quader said, ‘Some people have requested me to defer the time of implementation of the law; but I did not accept that request.’
He also said that the gazette notification was issued on Sunday about enlistment of the new law in the schedules of the Mobile Court Act 2009.
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‘We relaxed the law for two weeks for awareness programme. I request all to follow it,’ said Obaidul Quader.
BRTA director enforcement AKM Masudur Rahman told New Age that eight executive magistrates of the authority started conducting mobile courts in different areas of the Dhaka and Chattogram cities, including Manik Mia Avenue, Kakoli, Uttara, Darus Salam, Saidabad and Dhaka-Sylhet national highway, at about 11:00am and the drives would continue till 4:00pm.
The law came into effect on November 1 more than 13 months after it was passed in the Jatiya Sangsad.
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