The Road Transport Act remains ineffective, even after three and a half years. The government decisions are invariably swayed under pressure from the transport owners and workers
Rejoinder, our reply Published: 05 Jun 2021, 14:03 Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) and its contract firm Computer Network System Limited or CNS have given separate and almost similar rejoinders on the news Single organisation mysteriously gets all BRTA jobs published 29 May in Prothom Alo. They claimed the news is false and malafide . Certain conditions are set in every tender so that no organisation other than CNS has the scope to get the work. About this, BRTA in the rejoinder said they have given the work order in accordance with the public procurement rules. They have given least conditions to select contractors for collecting tax and fees from vehicles too. Any organisation can participate in it. BRTA procures services through competition.
Over the last one decade, Computer Network System Limited or CNS is the lone company that has obtained all work orders of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) to deliver services to the clients through information technology.
Staff Correspondent, bdnews24.com Published: 01 Apr 2021 03:52 PM BdST Updated: 01 Apr 2021 04:06 PM BdST Ridesharing motorcyclists have gathered in front of the National Press Club in a show of protest after police enforced the government’s halt order amid a record surge in coronavirus cases. ); } More than 500 motorcycle riders blocked the road past the National Press Club in Dhaka on Thursday and shouted slogans while blaring horns to protest what they said was ‘harassment’. Hafizur Rahman, a student of Kabi Nazrul Government College, taking part in the protest, said he bought a motorcycle in installments after losing his job as a kindergarten teacher.
BRTA to issue 4,000 new permits against scrapped auto-rickshaws in Chattogram UNB 9th February, 2021 01:50:44 Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has decided to issue permits for as many as 4,000 new CNG-run auto-rickshaws in Chattogram once it completes scrapping an equal number of old three-wheeler public transport vehicles that provide last-mile connectivity in the port city. BRTA resumed scrapping 15-year-old CNG-run auto-rickshaws in Chattogram on November 16 last year, after a gap of nearly eight months. The drive remained suspended for most of last year in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak. Till December 31, some 3,619 vehicles were dismantled under the scrapping process, as per figures shared by BRTA.