DNCC Mayor wants to bring discipline in traffic system

Staff Reporter :
The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam on Saturday pledged to restore discipline in the transport movement in the capital by allowing the vehicular movement on the basis of number plates.
“If the City Corporation gets the control of traffic management, it will bring a discipline in the streets. We will allow the transports as per the odd and even numbers on the number plates. It will help reduce traffic congestion” he said.
While inaugurating the ‘Bangabandhu Free Stage’ at Section-7 of Uttara in the capital, the Mayor emphasized on conducting a research to ascertain the number of vehicles and traffic gridlock in the city streets.
Earlier, on March 16, Atiqul Islam expressed his desire to control the traffic system to ease the traffic jam.
He, then, said, the City Corporation possesses the roads but it does not have any control over the vehicular moment.
He also said that the traffic system needs digitisation instead of manual operation of the traffic management.
The Mayor reiterated his desire to be part of the traffic management system to ease traffic congestion in the capital.
During the inaugural programme on Saturday, the Mayor said it was the duty and responsibility of the City Corporation to ensure a habitable place for the children and adolescents.
“This Free Stage has been built considering the needs of the children,” he added.
He also felt the need of different institutions like Shilpakala Academy and Bangla Academy in Uttara.
Among others, Member of the Parliament Meher Afroze Chumki, Director General of Bangla Academy Nurul Huda, former Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University AAMS Arefin Siddique, Trustee of Liberation War Museum Mofidul Hoque, and DNCC Chief Health Officer Brig Gen Md. Zobaidur Rahman, were present.