The government has decided to start construction of boundary pillars on the banks of the rivers that run around the capital within next March 15. A high-powered taskforce on river recovery in its fourth meeting held at the shipping ministry yesterday finalised the decision.
Talks between river transport workers and the shipping ministry failed on Sunday afternoon. The workers vowed to continue their indefinite strike on passenger, goods and fishing vessels, which began Saturday midnight paralysing river communications from morning. The Bangladesh River Transport Workers Federation, a coalition of worker unions, enforced the strike to press their 22-point demands, including a proper pay scale, effective application of riverine laws and a stop to harassment and robbery on river routes.
A parliamentary body on Thursday asked the shipping ministry to sue former adviser of the caretaker government Maj Gen (rtd) MA Matin for extending the age limit of marine pilots of Chittagong Seaport “unlawfully”.
The shipping ministry has sent the parliamentary findings on former adviser M A Matin's alleged irregularities in awarding a container handling work at Chittagong port to the Anticorruption Commission for legal action.
A parliamentary body yesterday instructed the shipping ministry to ask the Anti-Corruption Commission to sue former shipping adviser Maj Gen (retd) MA Matin and eight others for corruption in awarding a container handling deal at the Chittagong Port.
An inter-ministerial meeting will be held at the shipping ministry in Dhaka today to review the draft final report of techno-economic feasibility study on the proposed deep seaport.
