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to various ministries and offices. But while justice remained a far cry, she could not even obtain a minimum sum of compensation.

Her story sheds light on how not just families of regular commuters, but even those of transport workers suffer from the chaotic state of the country’s roads.

Jannatul Mawa lost her mother in a road accident years ago. After the accident, her father, a covered-van driver, was the only one taking care of her, until he too passed away in a fatal road crash.

Now a 10th-grader at a city school, Mawa said, “Nobody is by our side. No one will understand how it feels losing a loved one in a road crash.”

Like Shiuly and Mawa, family members of numerous others, who lost their beloved ones on the road, were present at the session.

Speaking there, Nirapad Sarak Chai chairperson Ilias Kanchan said, “It has been 28 years since I got involved with this movement for safer roads, but we’re yet to get it.”

Speaking as the chief guest, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said, “We have become a nation of law-breakers. I agree with the demand for safe roads and want to work together [with such movements].”