Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) is going to take an initiative to introduce bus franchising system shortly with a view to bringing discipline in the city's bus service.

The decision came yesterday at a coordination meeting between DSCC and 26 service providing organisations at Nagar Bhaban, with Mayor Sayeed Khokon in the chair.

“It is a huge task; we are going to take the initiative shortly and will implement it to bring a discipline in transport sector,” said the mayor.

Under the system, public transports, which are owned by a good number of companies, will be brought under an umbrella where a few companies will run the services, he said.

Referring to the recent accident of reckless driving resulting in the loss of a hand of a college student, DSCC mayor said accidents are happening in the city often due to the indiscipline of transport sector.

Rajib Hossain, a third-year student of Government Titumir College, lost his right hand after it got stuck between two speeding buses trying to overtake each other in the capital's Bangla Motor area on April 4.

Under bus franchising, the deregulated bus market is suspended and bus operators are only able to provide services under the local transport authority. This approach is used extensively across Europe, in London and elsewhere as it offers a range of significant advantages, such as, integrated ticketing, network planning, cross subsidy across bus services and other modes and unified marketing.

Earlier, late DNCC mayor Annisul Huq took an initiative

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