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Communications ministry wants to control traffic department

KAUSAR ISLAM AYON
The Ministry of Communications wants to get the traffic department under its authority to better the city's traffic management.
The activities of the traffic department are being hampered due to the 'communication gap' between the ministries of communications and home affairs, Communications Minister Nazmul Huda said.
"The communications ministry should be the supervising authority of all departments related to communication. At present, we have no control over the traffic department,"
Huda told Star City.
The minister said they are now preparing papers to inform the home ministry, the present authority of the traffic department, about the communications ministry's plea for taking control of the department.
"I will soon sit with the home ministry to place our demand and I believe the ministry will realise the reasons," Huda said.
The minister believes that the traffic system has improved in recent weeks after the installation of automatic signals in the capital.
The huge number of policemen involved in controlling the traffic in the city is now just wastage of manpower, he said, adding, a
very few traffic officials are now needed to be deployed to see the violation of traffic rules only.
Asked how the communications ministry will improve the traffic management if the traffic department comes under its command, Huda said: "I will withdraw most of the traffic police and ask them to keep the city roads free from encroachments and illegal parking."
He believes if the footpaths can be kept free for the pedestrians, the city's traffic situation will improve a lot.
At present most of the footpaths are occupied by hawkers. In some areas, shopkeepers keep their goods on display on the footpaths.
"We will modify the traffic rules and encourage people to abide by the rules," said the communications minister.
How will the communications ministry recruit and train the traffic policemen who come from Bangladesh Police under the home ministry? The minister said they are also thinking about the matter.
"The communications ministry would recruit the traffic personnel. And for training, we can send them to the police department. We need to discuss the matter with the home ministry," he said.
"We are also thinking about combined operations by the two ministries which will be discussed with the home ministry," Huda added.
When asked, an official of the home ministry termed the communications ministry's concept 'absurd.' He believes that disconnection of traffic department from the police will make the department inefficient.
"I don't think the home ministry will accept the proposal for various technical and practical reasons. Let the proposal come, we will see," said the official.