Formulate coordinated policy for safe roads
Amputee journalist Nikhil urges govt
Journalist Nikhil Bhadra, who lost his right leg in a road accident last year, yesterday urged the government to enact a coordinated communications policy to ensure a safe road network.
He said governments always emphasize on road-based transport system neglecting the two safest ways of communications, rail and water, while security issues of pedestrians and commuters were ignored.
“This type of wrong thinking cost too many lives. Several thousand people are being killed in the rush of vehicles driven by careless drivers. Insensible pedestrians are also responsible for the incidents,†he said.
Nikhil was addressing a press conference organised by Media Forum for Human Rights and Environmental Development in the capital's Dhaka Reporters Unity marking the day of Nikhil's accident and to raise awareness on road accidents.
On December 28, 2011, the 38-year-old senior reporter of Bangla daily Kaler Kantho was run over by a BRTC bus before Jatiya Press Club and doctors had to amputate his right leg from the knee hours after the incident.
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