Repairs restart

Vehicular movement on Meghna and Gumti bridges will remain suspended from today till February 22 due to repair works, and vehicles plying on Dhaka-Chittagong highway will have to use the alternative Dhaka-Brahmanbaria-Comilla-Chittagong highway.
Noor Muhammad Mazumder, deputy commissioner of Brahmanbaria, said police will be deployed on the highway to maintain law and order and also to establish smooth vehicular movement on the alternative Brahmanbaria-Maynamati highway.
In a meeting held at the deputy commissioner's office yesterday, it was decided that the highway will be kept free from entry of vehicles like human hauler, CNG-run auto-rickshaw, battery-run rickshaw and tractor.
Already posters and banners have been displayed on the highway to make people aware of the changes in vehicular movement.
Md Moniruzzaman, Brahmanbaria superintendent of police, and Jahidul Islam, additional superintendent, among others, were present at the meeting.