In Sonar Bangla, fitness certificates can in fact only be bought through dalals (currently Mujib's dalals). There is no way to get one legally....at all. So expect more deshis to be killed through the tradition of incompetence and corruption established by Mujib.
On the other hand, why is this such a big deal? There are more important and critical issues to deal with. For example:
- there's still a bunch of really old men out there we need to kill for crimes committed over 40 years ago that were forgiven by Mujib anyway.
- there's some words in the constitution (you know, the one that nobody follows at all) to be changed.
- there's still space left on an A4 sheet after writing down Hasina's honors that need to be filled.
- there's still some do-gooders out there that need to be humiliated and dragged down.
All in all and in keeping with the politicians and their idolaters - so what if thousands die because of old CNG cylinders? They should be grateful they lived at all.
Joy Bangla!
Emanur Rahman | m. +447734567561 | e. emanur@rahman.com
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Subject: [ALOCHONA] CNG time bomb ticks
CNG time bomb ticks
Passengers of CNG-run public transports are running the risk of cylinder
explosion as several thousand such vehicles are in service across the country
with CNG cylinders beyond their usability limit.
Officials concerned told New Age that the cylinders installed in the vehicles in
mid-80s in the country were still in service beyond their lifespan although they
should undergo fitness test every five years. The vehicles with cylinders
installed later, are also running on the roads without fitness test.
Zakir Hossain, general secretary of Bangladesh CNG filling station and
conversion workshop owners association, told New Age that several thousand
CNG-driven vehicles were in service with eight to 10 years old cylinders that
had not undergone fitness test. 'Generally, a CNG cylinder lasts 15 years and
law stipulates that they should be checked after five years in operation,' he
added.
He said that owners of CNG-driven vehicles, particularly the ones used in public
transport, were ignorant about the risk involved if their cylinders did not
undergo fitness test every five years. 'They seem little interested in having
their cylinders checked or replaced,' he said.
MA Rashid Sarkar, professor of mechanical engineering department at Bangladesh
University of Engineering and Technology, told New Age accidents caused by CNG
cylinder explosion took place quite often and the number of such accidents was
increasing every day. In most of the cases, old cylinders have been found to be
the reason, he added.He said that a CNG cylinder explosion could cause a terrible destruction blowing
up the vehicle and also damaging others nearby which could take a heavy toll of
lives.
Admitting the gravity of the situation, experts, officials and agencies
concerned called for putting in place an effective mechanism to enforce the
rules so that the CNG cylinders undergo fitness test every five years and the
spent ones were replaced.Zakir told New Age that the number of workshops which carry out fitness test of
CNG cylinders was very few which could hardly cope with an increasing number of
CNG-run vehicles.
'There is no enforcement of law or monitoring on the ground to check fitness
of the CNG cylinders and replace the old ones,' he said.
Khairul Bashar, director general of explosives department, told New Age that
owners of the CNG-driven vehicles were supposed to have their cylinders checked
at an authorised workshop and it was the responsibility of the refueling
stations to check the fitness certificate of the cylinders before refueling.
'The explosives department has permitted eight to nine workshops across the
country to do the job,' he added.
Employees of several CNG refueling stations, however, expressed ignorance about
their duty to check whether the cylinders of the vehicles have fitness stickers
on them when they come to the station for refueling. The explosives department,
however, has no initiatives to monitor it.
In reply to a question, Bashar told New Age that they had no vigilance teams to
monitor whether or not the CNG stations and other agencies concerned were
carrying out their duties.
He attributed the reason to lack of logistics and manpower.
Zakir told New Age that there were about two lakh CNG-driven vehicles in the
country and 60,000 to 70,000 of them were used as public transports. A large
number of CNG-run public transports like three wheelers, human howlers and buses
were plying the roads without legal documents, he said.
Osman Ali, general secretary of Bangladesh Road Transport Federation, told New
Age that the associations concerned had called for modification of the BRTA
ordinance.
Zakir told New Age that a large number of CNG-run vehicles appeared in the
streets in 2002-03 when the government banned two-stroke three wheelers and
allowed private entrepreneurs to invest in CNG conversion business.
Now, there are 130 CNG conversion workshops in the country and about a hundred
CNG-run vehicles are being prepared every day to hit the road, he said.
http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/frontpage/13877.html
