Rajshahi bus service resumes
People crowd Rajshahi Railway Station yesterday to catch a train amidst a two-day bus strike that followed a clash between CNG-run three-wheeler and bus workers in Rajshahi on Saturday. Photo: STAR
Movement of buses and CNG-run auto-rickshaws in Rajshahi resumed yesterday afternoon three days after its suspension following a clash on Saturday between the workers. At a meeting, leaders of bus and CNG-run auto-rickshaw owners and workers decided that now the auto-rickshaws would ply the designated roads in the district. Rajshahi City Corporation Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton presided over the meeting at the deputy commissioner's office yesterday. They also decided that CNG-run auto-rickshaw would not ply outside the city routes and the auto-rickshaw workers would have to pay Tk 7 lakh as compensation for damaging 14 buses during the three-day clash from Saturday. At a meeting in September last year, owners of the vehicles decided that the auto-rickshaws would ply some 25 designated roads. As these plied all the roads, the bus owners demanded total withdrawal of the vehicles from the roads. Following the demand, the auto-rickshaw drivers locked into a clash with the bus workers on Saturday in the city. Lawmaker Meraj Uddin Mullah, divisional commissioner Abdul Mannan, deputy commissioner Abdul Hannan, police commissioner M Obaidullah, police supper Toufiq Mahbub Chowdhury, BRTA additional director ATM Jalal Uddin, Rajshahi road transport group general secretary Manjur Rahman Pitar, district motor worker president Kamal Hossain Robi, CNG-run auto-rickshaw workers' union general secretary Zahangir Alam Shahin were, among others, present at the meeting yesterday.
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