শুক্রবার, জুন ০৯, ২০১৭

Reduce traffic jam, not fuel price sum -Siraji M R Mostak

Traffic jam is the greatest obstacle to the development and progress of Bangladesh. The increasing price of fuel is nothing to compare with devastating of traffic jam. So minimization of traffic jam is mandatory to improve the country. After improvement, that increased price of fuel will seem as blessing. So, we should minimize traffic jam first. The increased price of fuel is worthless to worry about now. How much amount is being lost for traffic jam, is uncountable. None have head-ache on it. The honorable minister Mr. Obaidul Kader has totally failed to control this traffic congestion. On the other hand Dr. Anu Muhammad and his Committee `to Protect-Oil-Gas’ desperate only to reduce fuel price. As a result, the government reluctantly been forced to reduce the price of oil. I suggest to look at the devastating loss of traffic jam first and take proper step to control it. After that, decide on minimization of fuel prices.

Traffic jam is a great threat for our country. Everyday millions of people spend so many hours for traffic jam. If one lac people waste mere an hour due to traffic jam, then per head about one lac working hours are lost. But a person can never do one lac hours in his total job life. Because he works eight hours daily with intervals. It maximizes 240 hours in a month, 2880 hours in a year and total 86,400 hours of work in thirty years of his total service life. That is, a single hour traffic jam wastes a person's whole careers income. It is also true that, the evaluation of everybody’s working hour is not the same. Somebody’s working hour is hundred times valuable than common laborers. That our country always losses millions of dollars in an hour due to traffic jam. Without minimizing it, this loss will never be met up.

The same loss is in transport also. Just think, while a vehicle transports to certain destinations in an hour by one liter fuel, the traffic jam hampers both time and fuel. For example, a human hauler driver can travel three times from New Market to Farmgate in an hour by a liter fuel costs. He can earn the fare of taka nine hundred only. If there is an hour long traffic jam, can he ever transport three times in an hour? Or can he earn nine hundred taka in an hour? It is impossible. Due to traffic jam he loses the liter of fuel without earning any amount and for slow driving in congestion. Driver will lose time, fuel and earnings all. This is an irrevocable loss by traffic jam. So if traffic jam minimizes, the increased fuel price will affect nothing. The increased amount will enrich our reserve ultimately.

Railway transportation is also sprawling. Though there is no traffic jam there is mismanagement of time and intrusion of wicked peoples. Every year government pays a large amount of compensation for that intrusion. If railway transportation have proper time management, it will be the most profitable sector. People would arrive at station timely. They would avail rickshaw and other vehicles. It would reach the benefit to the root levels of people. It will save time and energy costs also. And  corruption will be minimized to zero level.

There is no many causes of this catastrophic traffic jam and it is not difficult to minimize also. The awareness and enforcement of law are the first to minimize it. Besides this, The VIPs (Very Important Person) block the road and recognize Very Illegal Person, it should be stopped. The road constructors thieve bricks, sands and irons that allotted for road construction, they should be accountable. The roads should be constructed properly. After that, no need to reduce fuel price. For increasing amount of fuel price, the BPC (Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation), a deficit and downfall organization, has become rich, high reserved and profitable organization now. So, the increasing amount of fuel may seem as a matter of prosperity.

Thus it is clear that traffic jam is never compared with high price of fuel at all. Remaining traffic jam though the fuel price is diminished, nobody can avail any benefit. Without minimizing traffic jam, we can never minimize transport fare. So government should minimize traffic jam first and reduce fuel costs at last.

Advocate, Dhaka.

mrmostak786@gmail.com.

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