PM directs to check vehicle overloading
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the communications ministry officials to check overloading of vehicles, as the malpractice has been damaging roads and bridges across the country.
Hasina issued the directive while speaking on Motor Vehicles Excess Load Control Centre Management Policy-2012 at the weekly cabinet meeting in Bangladesh Secretariat.
“The communications ministry placed the policy, which was approved after discussion,” Cabinet Secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan told reporters after the meeting.
He said movement of overloaded vehicles was risky and it damaged roads, ultimately raising the cost of road maintenance.
In the absence of a specific policy, he said, the existing government directives on controlling the loads of vehicles could not be implemented.
To minimise the risk and maintenance costs and ensure the full implementation of existing government directives on the issue, the cabinet approved the policy, he added.
The cabinet also discussed that there are some weight measuring bridges installed at different places of the country, but those are not being used effectively. Many of the machines are out of action because there is no policy in this regard, he said.
The approved policy spells out how a weighbridge will be installed and how it should operate.
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