Bill on Road Transport Act to be placed in budget session

Staff Correspondent: Law Minister Anisul Huq has said a bill on the proposed Road Transport Act, 2017 may be placed in the parliament during its upcoming budget session.

The Minister made the disclosure to the reporters in replying to a question while emerging from a programme of senior assistant judges at the Judicial Administration Training Institute in the capital on Sunday noon.

He said, "The government is working to formulate a modern and updated road transport law for reducing road accidents in the country."

"All the aspects including fitness of the transports, training of drivers and their punishments will be incorporated in the proposed law," he said.

"The government will hold stakeholders before finalising the proposed Road Transport Act," he added.

In reply to a query, the Minister said, "The government is holding discussion with relevant persons for bringing BNP acting chairperson Tarique Rahman back to the country from London"

 

risingbd/Dhaka/April 22, 2018/Mahidi/A K Azad