Vehicles face 4.6 lakh cases in 8 months

Traffic department of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) so far filed 4,63,776 cases against vehicles on various charges and realised fine of nearly Tk 20 crore during its special drives in the city from December 8 last to July 25 this year.
During the period, police also realised more than Tk 70 lakh as fines from vehicles. Of the amount, Tk 6,175,000 was realised for violating the traffic rules.
Police also seized 3,621 driving licenses and held 291 drivers.
DMP began the drives from December 8 last year to enforce traffic rules and reduce jams in the city. Each major road of the city was divided into three lanes.
Last December, DMP carried out a weeklong awareness campaign among drivers and transport workers before starting of the drive against traffic rule violators.
The awareness campaign was conducted so the vehicles ply in the designated lanes and follow signals to change the lanes before taking
right or left turn and must not keep the lanes blocked in any way.
DMP also carried out crackdown against model out and rundown vehicles and the vehicles without route permit from August 9 last year.
Official sources said a total of 27,461 vehicles were seized from August 9, 2009 to July 25 this year.
Of the seized vehicles, police released 24,519 vehicles after realising fines and 1,684 after taking undertakings on condition that they would be not run in the city streets.
In the second phase from August 8, DMP again launched an operation to make sure the drivers strictly follow lanes and signals in the capital to ease e traffic jam.