No battery-run rickshaws to ply DSCC roads: Taposh
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh has announced they have started taking legal action against all battery-run motorised vehicles from yesterday.
The mayor termed all non-motorised vehicles which were motorised using batteries as illegal. "We will take legal action against rickshaws or rickshaw-vans that were turned into motorised vehicles with batteries if they are found running inside DSCC areas," he said while inaugurating the renewal process of rickshaw, rickshaw-van, pushcarts and horse carts at Nagar Bhaban on Saturday.
"All non-motorised slow moving vehicles like rickshaws will be brought under new registration and renewal process with a view structure their operations," he said.
"We have already started conducting a study to find out the effectiveness of vehicles on city roads," the mayor said. After the study, DSCC will be able to determine which roads should be allocated for motorised vehicles and which roads for non-motorised ones, he added.
Taposh said this will be his first move to make Dhaka a movable city, which was one of his election pledges. He also announced the start of a process to fix distance-based rickshaw fares.
Responding to a question about new registration of rickshaws which may put bad impact on city roads, the DSCC mayor reminded that there has been no registration process for rickshaws for the last three decades so the ones plying the roads now are doing so illegally. The registrations are thus a way to formalise their operations.
He said many artists and literary people call Dhaka city a "City of rickshaw" as it is a tradition of the capital city.
Meanwhile DSCC has already published a public notice asking interested people to take application forms from Nagar Bhaban or its zonal offices for changing ownership, renewal or registration for a new non-motorised vehicle.
Interested persons will have to pay Tk 100 for an application form and will have to submit it to the DSCC authorities.
DSCC will give registration or renewal after scrutinising the documents and will charge a certain amount of fees.
The registration, which started on September 13, will continue till September 27.
DSCC currently has 52,712 non-motorised registered vehicles, most of which are rickshaws, though many more are running illegally.
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