Staff Correspondent

A government-formed committee has proposed fixing a bus fare of Tk 2.2 per kilometre on the Ghatarchar-Kanchpur Bridge route, where a single company will operate all the buses on a pilot basis from April 1.

The proposed fare is almost 30 percent higher than the current fares in Dhaka city.

The committee led by Nur Mohammad Mazumder, chairman of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), made the decision at a meeting at the BRTA headquarters on Sunday.

“We will submit our proposal to the ministry [of Road Transport and Bridges], which will finalise the fare,” Nur Mohammad told The Daily Star yesterday.

The Bus Route Rationalisation Committee designated to bring all bus services under a few companies aims to bring discipline on city roads. It decided to begin with the Ghatarchar-Kanchpur Bridge route.

After the previous meeting of the committee on January 19, Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh said the city corporation directed the BRTA to update within five days the information on the public buses operating on the Ghatarchar-Kanchpur Bridge route.