Every year we can see a haphazard situation in the Eid oriented journey. People have to suffer a lot and many accidents occur. In last Eid-ul-Fitr, at least 300 people died country wide. Hundreds of people have been injured. The situation is really alarming. A proper plan and monitoring system is necessary to stop the accident during Eid oriented journey. Speakers expressed the above view at a discussion meeting on 9^th September 2015, 11 am at the office of Poribesh Bachao Andolon (POBA), jointly organized by Poribesh Bachao Andolon (POBA) and Work for a Better Bangladesh Trust.

Speakers said that, ignorance in rail and water sector, excessive dependence on roads, defected infrastructure and vehicles, unskilled and unlicensed drivers, excessive speed in highway, ignoring signals, non-enforcement of laws, lack of awareness among authority and people and lack of proper plan and monitoring system are increasing the number of accidents. So a proper plan and integrated initiative is necessary to adopt in this regard.

Our recommendations:

·        A management integrating rail, bus and water transport and a proper monitoring of the management.

·        Using the BRTC bus of various office and educational institutions for during Eid.

·        Holiday management among various institutions.

·         Increasing number train, bus and water transportation.

·        Stop black marketing of tickets and ensure law enforcement.

·        Maintain speed limit.

·        Ban unskilled and unlicensed drivers.

·        Check fitness of vehicles regularly.

Under the Chairmanship of Abu Naser Khan, Chairman, POBA other speakers were Engineer Abdus Sobhan, Executive General Secretary, POBA; Syed Monoar Hossain, Joint-General Secretary, POBA; Maruf Hossain, Program Manager, LC, NCD, WB Trust; Atiqur Rahman, Project Officer, WBB Trust; Naznin Kabir, Deputy Program Manager, WBB Trust; Tofayel Ahmed, Executive Member, POBA; Md. Selim and Ali Hazari, Executive Director, United Peoples Trust.