Rickshaw crisis
If you go through the Rikabibazar road from Subidbazar in Sylhet city, certainly you will watch something. About one thousand rickshaws are locked up on the field of Sylhet Police Lines. I noticed it first about four years ago. And the number is increasing gradually. Perhaps those are apprehended as illegal rickshaws and the owners can't get them back owing to legal complexities. The parts of those vehicles are getting rusted and losing their worth.
In Sylhet, the cost of manufacturing a rickshaw is about Tk 15,000 to 20,000 . So it is a sheer waste of resources. People wait hour after hour on the street for a rickshaw. They have to compete with others in a hopeless situation. Yet, a large number of rickshaws remain stranded in the Police Lines!
Who will look after the needs of common people?
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