Road accidents: Govt urged to make trustee board functional for compensation claims

Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity today demanded that the government make the trustee board functional immediately which will deal with compensation related issues after accidents.

The passenger welfare body also demanded to set Tk 20 lakh as compensation for families of the deceased victims of road accidents and Tk 5 lakh for injured.

Mozammel Hoque Chowdhury, secretary general of the organisation, placed the demands at a press conference at Crime Reporters Association of Bangladesh.

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More than two years after the Road Transport Act-2018 was passed in parliament, the government in December last year has appointed a chairman and a secretary for the trustee board that is supposed to deal with compensation-related issues after accidents.

Yet, the board cannot function as it is supposed to since the rules for it have not yet been formulated.

Road accidents victims will have to wait until the rules are formulated and approved by the government before they can get compensation. They can seek compensation but these will not be processed before the board is fully functional.