Somehow this makes sense to AL intellectuals.
And AL pragmatists too.
This is a perfect example of our condition. Load of crap.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> Minister pulls for extortion
>
>
>
> Shajahan Khan asks JS body to recommend legalising the crime to stop
> rampant corruption in transport sector
>
>
>
> It was none but a minister who before a parliamentary sub-committee
> yesterday demanded that extortion be made legal to stop rampant corruption
> in the transport sector.
>
> Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan, who heads the Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan
> Sramik Federation, made the mind-boggling demand before the committee
> yesterday. Transport leaders led by him did not stop there; they placed a
> 17-point demand before the committee, in which they chalked out ways of how
> the "legal toll collection" would be made from buses, trucks,
> auto-rickshaws and labourers working in the sector.
>
> In defence of their demands, Shahjahan Khan and Khandaker Enayet Ullah, a
> top transport owners' leader, yesterday said illegal money collection would
> stop on the country's roads once "toll collection" was legalised.
>
> The controversial minister became the talk of the country last year when he
> suggested that professional drivers did not need education.
>
> The transport leaders yesterday asked the sub-committee to form another
> committee led by none other than Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan to
> implement their recommendations. They also wanted Jatiya Party leader
> Moshiur Rahman Ranga, executive president of Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan
> Samity, and six others as members of the committee.
>
> The parliamentary sub-committee, chaired by M Israfil Alam, held the
> meeting with top leaders of transport labourers and owners at the Jatiya
> Sangsad Bhaban yesterday to devise ways of stopping raging extortion in the
> sector. The committee had its first meeting on October 13 last year.
>
> After the first meeting, the sub-committee informed reporters that
> transport workers' leaders, especially a minister-led labour organisation,
> were running an extortion regime and the minister's organisation was having
> the largest piece of the pie."It collects at least Tk 51 crore a year in
> the name of raising funds for workers' welfare," Israfil told reporters,
> quoting other transport leaders, following the October meeting.
>
> The sub-committee chief had said at the time that its findings were only
> the tip of the iceberg and they were yet to get the full picture.He had
> said rampant "toll collection" resulted in transport fare hikes by 40 to
> 200 percent. People end up paying high fares and also increased prices for
> all commodities, he said.According to the sub-committee, more than 23 lakh
> workers are employed in the transport industry, which has over 5 lakh
> buses. There are 7,490 workers' unions, 510 workers' organisations and 412
> bus owners' associations.
>
> At yesterday's meeting of the sub-committee, Shahjahan Khan, Enayet Ullah
> and others demanded fixing a minimum charge which labourers and owners
> would pay to run their respective bodies.They said labourers and owners
> organisations operating light vehicles and auto rickshaws should be allowed
> to charge each vehicle Tk 20 a day to run their organisations.Truck owners
> and labourers organisations should be allowed to collect Tk 20 a day from
> each member as organisation running cost, said the recommendation placed
> before the committee.They also recommended that each bus and truck pay Tk
> 20 on ferries to meet the expenses of labourers working there.
>
> At the goods loading and unloading points, every truck would have to pay Tk
> 10. Trucks would have to pay Tk 10 at the beginning and conclusion of every
> journey.Leaders of labourers and bus-truck owners organisations recommended
> that every inter-district bus and truck pay Tk 20 each to labourers and
> owners unions.The leaders want payment of Tk 20 for each vehicle
> requisitioned for the labourers' and owners' unions and to compensate
> vehicle owners as also meet the daily expenses of labourers.
>
> Shahjahan Khan, labour leaders and Enayet Ullah-led transport owners'
> leaders yesterday also recommended the formation of a committee comprising
> all stakeholders to implement policies on running their organisations and
> different bus terminals.The committee yesterday did not make any
> observation regarding the 17-point demand that was placed before it.
>
> http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=222192
>
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