Govt transport drivers asked to carry licenses

Drivers of all government transports have been directed to carry valid license-documents with them while plying their vehicles on the roads, director of the department of government transports Shafikuzzaman said on Thursday, reports UNB.

“The government has ordered the drivers to carry all necessary papers for their driving on the roads to avoid any untoward circumstances during ongoing students’ protest,” the director told UNB.

The decision came as the ongoing students’ protests took a new dimension on Thursday as students took the responsibility of traffic management and examining driving licences and papers of vehicles in the capital apart from blocking roads.

Although the government shut down all the educational institutions across the country for Thursday, the students wearing uniforms and holding bags took to the streets in the capital and many districts to press for their nine-point demand, including ensuring safety in roads and justice for the two students who were killed in a road accident in the capital, and resignation of shipping minister Shajahan Khan.

In the capital, the student protests continued for the 5th consecutive day protesting city road crash that claimed lives of two college students defying rains on Thursday.

On Sunday, Diya Khanam Mim and Abdul Karim Rajib, students of the college section of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin School and College, were killed as a ‘Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan’ bus ploughed through some students in front of Kurmitola General Hospital on Dhaka airport road.