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Home-goers flock to city exit points

Helemui. Alam
With Eid-ul-Azha only three days away, thousands of city dwellers have started to leave Dhaka to celebrate the second largest religious festival of the Muslims with their near and dear ones.
The mad rush of homebound people, however, will gather pace from November 25 though a good number of passengers already left the city yesterday amid crisis of seats both in buses and trains.
Bus fare of different routes has increased by Tk 20 to Tk 150. The bus operators, however,
said they are not charging more than the rates fixed by the government.
Amzad Hossain, a resident of Khulna, bought a ticket of a normal coach Shoukhin Paribahan at Gabtali Bus Terminal for Tk 200, which is between Tk 120 andTk 150 at the usual time.
Terminal authorities of Saidabad, Gabtoli and Mohakhali are asking passengers through loudspeaker not to buy tickets from outside the counters to avoid black marketeers, brokers, and frauds.
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab),-police and
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intelligence personnel have been deployed at the terminals to ease the situation for the home goers.
Although the railway authorities arranged advance sale of tickets ahead of Eid-ul-Azha but by the time all the tickets of the 36 intercity trains have been sold out.
Many passengers were seen waiting at the Kamalapur Railway Station to buy standing tickets' of intercity trains.
"I have come to Kamalapur at 9:00am to buy a standing ticket of Chittagong-bound Tuma Nishitha scheduled to leave at 11:00pm but till 2:00pm I have failed to manage a ticket as the tickets will be given just before the train leaves," said Mohammad Firoz, a resident of Mirpur.
"I tried to manage advance ticket of Silk City for my trip to Rajshahi but failed to collect one due to long queue the day before and now I have been waiting for a standing ticket since morning, said Atik. a resident of Mohammadpur.
The authorities concerned will arrange four special train services on four routes on November 25-27 to ease the pressure of homebound people. The special trains will be operational after Eid for the passengers who will return to Dhaka.
The routes are Dhaka-Jamalpur, Dhaka-Mymensingh, Joydebpur-Shantahar and Dhaka-Cantonment-Ishwardi, said MA Jinnah, station manager of Kamalapur Railway Station.
Extra two to four compartments have been added to reduce the pressure of the passengers, he said.
Law enforcers have been deployed at Kamalapur to maintain law and order and prevent black marketeers from selling tickets in black market.
Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) will start its special Eid service from November 26 and it will continue for the next three days.
BRTC sources said a good number of bus will ply on different inter-district routes while 77 other buses, city service and staff buses, will be added to the fleet.