Media urged to play role for road safety
Speakers at a memorial meeting of journalist Dinesh Das urged the media to play a more active role in ensuring road safety.
“Media have to be involved in removing all irregularities in the transport sector as well as stand against “godfathers” of the sector for preventing deaths in accidents,” they told the meeting in the city yesterday.
The journalist leaders said the journalist community is shocked at the death of its colleague Dinesh. They also mentioned about another journalist, Nikhil Chandra Bhadra, who lost one of his legs as a BRTC bus ran over him recently.
The journalist community will need to work together beyond their ideology for ensuring journalists' safety and establish their professional rights at any cost, they said.
Dhaka Reporters' Unity (DRU) organised the meeting with its president Sakhawat Hossain Badsha in the chair. DRU General Secretary Sajjad Alam Khan Tapu conducted the meeting.
Among others, president of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, former presidents of DRU M Anwarul Haque and Mahfuzur Rahman, Chief Reporter of the Daily Jugantar Rafiqul Islam Ratan, former general secretary of Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) Omar Faruque, DRU Vice-President Asaduzzaman Samrat were present at the meeting.
They said the law enforcement agencies should ensure traffic rules and check driving licences of drivers for curbing fake ones.
Later, DRU and Bangladesh Textbook Publication and Sellers Samity handed over Tk 2 lakh to the wife of Dinesh Das and his daughter Athayi Das.
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