72 new highway police outposts within three months

Dhaka, March 19 (BDNEWS) – The government will set up 72 new highway police outposts on the roads which will start operating with adequate personnel and vehicles within three months. One outpost will be within 40 kilometres from another.

It was disclosed at a meeting of the Road transport owners-workers consultative committee Saturday held in the conference room of the communications ministry with the minister Barrister Nazmul Huda in the chair.

The meeting thanked the government for formulation of workers welfare fund act.

The meeting demanded immediate stoppage of the vicious activities of illegal truck management and middlemen whose activities contribute to price hike. It also urged the labour and employment ministry to file a report on these illegal truck management organisations.

Mayor of Dhaka city corporation Sadeque Hossain Khoka, housing and public works minister Mirza Abbas, state minister for home Md Lutfozzaman Babar, state minister for labour and employment Amanullah Aman, SA Khaleq MP, executive president of Bangladesh road transport workers federation (BRTWF) Shahjahan Khan MP, BRTWF president Waziuddin Khan, communications secretary Md Shafiqul Islam, BRTA chairman Faruk Ahmed and other representatives of transport organisations were present in the meeting.

BDNEWS/2027 hrs