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Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has called upon the police and the experts of the country’s engineering university to find a solution to the capital’s traffic congestion.

He gave this order in a meeting with the top officials of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) and two city traffic system experts of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) on Monday (September 16).

Dr. instructed the DMP to find ‘some quick and effective solutions’ to the traffic jam problem of two crore people in Dhaka. Yunus. In a meeting at the State Guest House Jamuna in Dhaka, he said that our traffic congestion will be resolved. We need to find a solution immediately.

The meeting also urged the traffic police to take up some pilot projects to decongest traffic such as limiting the stopping time of buses to less than two minutes at small stations on 2-3 important roads and similar measures on other roads in the city later on.

BUET experts are asked to find some of their own solutions with the help of their students in at least one traffic corridor and fix the signaling system using their own expertise.

Professor Moazzem Hossain, expert in transportation and traffic systems of BUET, gave a presentation in the meeting. He said that the country loses at least 40 thousand crore rupees annually due to traffic congestion in Dhaka city alone.

DMP Additional Commissioner (Traffic) b. Nazmul Hasan said the situation has continued to improve following the deployment of more traffic police in recent weeks. The full police force is expected to be deployed by the end of next week.

Also spoke in the meeting – Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser Lieutenant General (retd.) Abdul Hafiz, Professor of Civil Engineering at BUET. Hadiuzzaman and DMP Additional Commissioner Farooq Ahmed.