Twenty vehicles were sent to the dumping stations on Sunday, the first day of a countrywide joint drive of the government to remove the buses and trucks which have expired their economic life.
The mobile courts fined a total of 495 cases against the outdated buses, minibuses, trucks, and covered vans and other vehicles.
The joint drive had been conducted by the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority and the district administrations both at day and night.听
During the drives on Sunday, Tk听11,64,150 was realised as fines, said the BRTA deputy director for enforcement Md Hemayet Uddin.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh Road Transport Owners鈥� Association urged the government to postpone the drive for 15 days and meet their demands including the extension of the economic life of the buses and goods-laden vehicles by five years each.
Earlier on June 19, the Road Transport and Highways Division under the road transport ministry issued a circular, saying that following the Road Transport Act 2018鈥檚 Section 36, the government had set the economic life of the buses and minibuses at 20 years and the economic life of the goods-laden vehicles, including trucks and covered vans, at 25 years.
The owners鈥� association secretary general, Md Saiful Alam, told 抖阴精品 on Sunday that they demanded the extension of the economic life of the buses and trucks by five years each, scraping of guidelines that call for replacing outdated buses and goods-laden vehicles with new vehicles, and allowing them to run the vehicles as long as they stay fit for running.
鈥榃e held a meeting today at our headquarters in the capital in the presence of leaders from all divisions and districts where we have taken decision to urge the government to postpone the drive for 15 days to meet our demands,鈥� he said.
Saiful added that they would send a letter regarding this to the road transport ministry today (Monday).听
According to the BRTA, from 1988, when it was established, till May this year 85,198 buses and minibuses and 2,14,445 trucks, covered vans and tankers were registered under it. The BRTA has no data on the phased out vehicles registered under it.
Out of these registered vehicles, 39,169 buses and minibuses are older than 20 years, and
41,140 trucks, covered vans and tankers are older than 25 years, as per BRTA.
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