Stop plying of faulty vessels

The government should take effective measures to stop plying of faulty and risky vessels on the eve of the Eid-ul-Fitr, speakers demanded yesterday.
They placed the demand at a press conference jointly organised by the Safe Waterway Implementation Movement (SWIM), Protect and Progress Foundation (PPF) and Unnayon Dhara Trust at the National Press Club.
Hundreds of thousands of people will head for home by launches during the festival. Any accident will be massive this time. So the government should prevent plying of faulty and risky vessels, they said.
Their other demands include registering name and address of passengers, cancellation of rotation system, ensuring overloaded vessels do not ply, stopping carrying passengers on rooftop and hatch, keeping lifejacket and buoy in every vessel and deploying sufficient number of law enforcers.
SWIM member secretary Aminur Rashul Babul, PPF general secretary Jibanananda Jayanta, Unnayon Dhara Trust chairman Shahdat Chowdhury, among others, spoke at the press conference.