Bus service on Dhaka-Pabna route resumes

Bus service on Dhaka-Pabna highway through Sirajganj resumed following a fruitful discussion between the transport owners and workers of Pabna and Sirajganj districts.

Bus services through Sirajganj district remained stopped since January 20, after transport workers and owners stopped plying of the vehicles protesting rampant extortion on the highway.

Firoz Khan, president of Pabna transport workers association, said they took the decision at a meeting held in Bogra town on Saturday night where the leaders of transport workers associations of Pabna and Sirajganj were present.

A gang of extortionists in the name of transport workers union beat up a worker of a Dhaka-bound coach at Shahjadpur bus stand in Sirajganj on January 12 as he refused to pay them illegal toll.

Protesting continuous harassment by the extortionists in Shahjadpur upazila of Sirajganj, the agitating transport workers halted Dhaka-Pabna bus service through Sirajganj since January 20.

The transport leaders at the meeting also formed two separate district committees to investigate into the January 12 incident.