The interim government鈥檚 railways adviser, Muhammad Fauzul Kabir Khan, on Monday ordered to form three taskforces for checking ticket blacking, late running of trains and management of railway land.聽聽
He said that the interim government was determined to compress the expenditure of the railway and increase its services.
The adviser said these while meeting the officials of railways ministry and Bangladesh Railway at Rail Bhaban on his first day at office.
He said that people do not get train tickets at counters but they get tickets inside the trains which cannot continue anymore.
鈥楾here are some vested interests involved with the railway. They hold the tickets using some fictitious identities and phone numbers,鈥� he said, adding, 鈥榓s a result, the common passengers do not get the tickets.鈥�
Fauzul Kabir Khan asked the railways authorities to form three separate taskforces.
The first taskforce would work for blocking these fictitious IDs and fictitious phone number to stop them from buying and selling tickets, he continued.
Another taskforce, he further said, will work to stop trains from running behind the schedules, considering the technical limitations.
He said that the third taskforce would work to check the mismanagement with railway land by checking who occupy railway land and in what condition the lands are.
鈥楾his government has been formed on the basis of mass expectation, huge public support and their blood,鈥� he said.
The adviser said that this government had not come through any mid-night election.
鈥楶eople want change now and that is why they respond to the student movement,鈥� he said and added that they were determined to bring that change.
He further said that railway had to be evaluated by its services instead of statistics as it was a service-based entity.
Fauzul Kabir Khan called the authorities concerned to help the passengers to get tickets easily from the counters and urged the officials to work in transparent ways.
Railways ministry senior secretary MA Akmal Hossain Azad and Bangladesh Railway director general Sardar Shahadat Ali were also present among others at the meeting.
