Dhaka-Aricha road

Sudden death of an able and earning member of a family brings not only endless sufferings to the concerned family but it also causes a great economic loss to the nation. Moreover, the passengers become reluctant to move through two way roads jeopardising economic activities of the country including tourism. Rough statistics show that more than 10,000 people die in accidents in Bangladesh every year. Most of them are able and earning persons. Only the economists can figure out the national loss of the country out of their immature deaths. Since long, Dhaka Aricha road has been marked as a death trap . However, after opening of the Bangabandhu Bridge the number of incidents on the road has diminished as the pressure of traffic has been reduced . But the recent accident which took the lives of two top bureaucrats (Mrs. Razia Begum, Secretary to the government and Mr Siddiqur Rahman, Chairman, BISCIC) jolted the whole nation. We have seen that the number of accidents from Gabtoli to Savar has come down because of the road divider. Many hoped and demanded that the whole road be marked by a divider, but it did not happen. If there had been a divider on the road, we might not have lost our two top bureaucrats ( of course, God is the only saviour).