Staff Correspondent

Information and Broadcasting Adviser Md Nahid Islam today urged all involved in the transport sector to work together to ensure road safety in the country.

"Structural reforms are needed to establish discipline in the transport sector. Along with this, political corruption in the transport sector must be stopped. I urge those involved in the transport sector to work together to ensure road safety," he said.

The adviser made the call while speaking at the National Dialogue on Institutional Management and Structural Reforms to establish discipline in the road transport sector, organized by the Road Safety Foundation at the Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) here as the chief guest.

Noting that structural developments become meaningless if those cannot ensure the safety of people's lives, he said: "We need positive changes in our basic development plans."

The adviser said that road safety movement was waged to challenge the alleged development of the previous government.

Through that movement, the issue of ensuring safe roads has been highlighted through school and college students, he added.

At the beginning of the dialogue, Abdullah M Ferdous Khan, Vice President of the Road Safety Foundation, presented a documentary on what needs to be done to establish discipline in the road transport sector.

Road Safety Foundation Chairman Dr AI Mahbub Uddin Ahmed presided over the dialogue.

Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) Director General Faruk Wasif, Road Safety Foundation Vice President Syed Jahangir and Road Safety Foundation Executive Director Saidur Rahman also spoke.