CNG-Run Auto-Rickshaws
Owners call for strike July 11, 12
CNG-run auto-rickshaw owners at a rally in front of Jatiya Press Club in the capital yesterday calling for strikes on July 11 and 12 to realise their 10-point demand.Photo: STAR
Dhaka Metropolitan CNG Auto-Rickshaw Owners' Association yesterday called strikes on July 11 and 12 over a 10-point demand, including withdrawal of a newly imposed annual income tax of around Tk 3,500. Other demands, made at a press conference in the capital's Dhaka Reporters Unity, include, increasing economic lifespan of CNG-run auto-rickshaws from 11 to 15 years, stopping police harassment and declaring the sector an industry. However, in a press release yesterday, Dhaka Mohanagar CNG Auto-Rickshaw O Mishuk Sramik Union urged all to oppose the strike. Meanwhile, Dhaka Metropolitan Private CNG Auto-Rickshaw Owners' Welfare Association, at a press conference at Jatiya Press Club, urged the government to let them run the vehicles commercially. “We demand a conversion of our registration from private to commercial,” said the association President Sarwar Hossain. The HC on June 14, following a news report “Private yet up for hiring” on The Daily Star on May 13, directed the government to deploy mobile courts in the capital from June 21 to stop private CNG-run auto rickshaws from operating illegally on a commercial basis.
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