Railway can help

By SM Parvez Akhtar, On e-mail
24 July 2006, 18:00 PM
I went to buy some mangoes at Shaheen Shopping Complex. I asked the shopkeeper about the price. It was a real shock for me when he asked Tk 90 per kilo mango (Fazli). I asked him why the price was so high. The reply was that he had pay toll to a lot of people since the mangoes came all the way from Rajshahi.

The situation is really bad. Can the Bangladesh Railway play any role in this respect? So far I know the railway does not pay any toll to anybody. It can carry cargo very conveniently to different places of the country. May be it would require some rescheduling of trains and some booking booths.

I hope the BR authorities would study its feasibility and come up with some idea to introduce a system, like commuter trains, to help the traders.