Readers’ Voice
Make railway more comfortable
It is difficult to get a comfortable seat on the train of the Bangladesh Railway (BR) now. Millions of passengers journey by buses that cost them very high fares. They travel by bus finding no other alternative to travel. The private bus owners take this as an advantage and have fixed the costly fare of bus tickets.
Bangladesh is a developing country as she has achieved all three criteria of the UN to be called a developing country. Per capita income has crossed U$2,900. Purchasing capacity of people here been enhanced. They desire a comfortable rail journey. Government had increased train fare a few years ago. The increased fair is still far less than bus fare. As the BR was operating at huge loss and bus fare is much higher than that of train fare at this backdrop the increasing train fare will not be irrational. Train travel is much safer than by road. Lot of people like to travel by train. Most of the affluent potential passengers cannot avail train service as Air Cooled and first class seats are very limited than the demand. People have to travel by luxury buses paying very high fares and the agony of accidents. After a long time, the present government has assumed different projects to expand and upgrade train services.
More driving locomotives, passenger bogies and good bogies have been imported. As the Bangladesh Railway is a losing concern it could not provide efficient services incurring loss years together. It is high time that authorities should stop importing non air-cool bogies rather import Air Cooled passenger bogies to increase income of Bangladesh Railway, which will contribute to reduce loss and develop the environment to improve service quality. If fifty percent air cooled passenger bogies could be introduced, the fare of travel by air cooled bogies could be reduced significantly, which would attract more passengers to travel in air cooled bogies. It will reduce the dependence on dangerous bus travel of countrymen and facilitate the profitability of the BR.
Md Ashraf Hossain
Middle Bashabo, Dhaka
Ban online games
Students now can easily say hundreds of guns’ name like ‘Free Fire’, ‘PUBG’ etc. When his phone is caught up, he doesn’t excuse reviling his parent and even his grandmother too.
On October 16, 2021, a teenage boy was killed by his friend over playing PUBG game in Manikganj. Isn’t it high time for us to be more careful of our future assets, teenagers? One thing should not be forgotten that our today’s young generation is the asset of future golden Bangladesh.
Abdur Rahman
Sherpur, Bogura
