Buses, minibuses start plying as strike withdrawn
Earlier, an agreement was concluded at the meeting to re-fix the transport fares.
Addressing a press conference at the BRTA office, Noor Mohammad Mazumder said the fare for long distant bus services has been re-fixed Tk 1.80 per km, raising from the existing Tk 1.42 per km, while the fare of the buses and minibuses plying on the metropolitan cities has been refixed at Tk 2.15 per km, raising from Tk 1.70 per km.
It is learnt that a notification will be issued tonight.
Meanwhile, transport owners announced that buses and minibuses would ply from Sunday afternoon following reaching an agreement with the BRTA to raise the fares. Bus and goods carrying trucks’ strike have also been withdrawn.
Earlier, a meeting was held at the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) office in Dhaka to fix the fares of all public transports following the recent fuel price hike.
BRTA Chairman Noor Mohammad Mazumder presided over the meeting where Khandakar Enayetullah, secretary general, Bangladesh Public Transport Owners’ Association; Ramesh Chandra Ghosh, chairman of Bangladesh Bus-Truck Owners’ Association; Golam Rahman, chairman of Consumers’ Association Bangladesh; Shukdeb Dhali, director (operations) of BTRC are present among others.
