Dhaka, Aug 2 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday gave saving certificates of Taka 20 lakh each to the family members of Diya and Rajib, the two college students who died in the dreadful bus crash on the Airport Road on Sunday. The prime minister handed over the saving certificates to the family members of Diya and Rajib while they called on her at the PMO.
Premier’s press secretary Ihsanul Karim said the prime minister consoled the parents and said she would stand by the families with all possible supports.
“I am speechless to console you as I can feel the pain of losing near and dear one. . . In one night I lost all members of my family,” he quoted the prime minister as saying during talks with the family members.
Diya’s father Jahangir Fakir met the prime minister along with Diya’s mother, brother and sister while Rajib’s mother Mohima Begum met her along with her sister.
The press secretary said in an emotional voice Diya’s father, a bus driver himself, pointed out some problems of the transport sector and the drivers in particular.
“Most of the drivers are overworked and exhausted resulting in frequent road accidents on roads,” he said.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and Principal of Shahid Ramiz Uddin
School and College Nurnahar Yasmin were present.
The prime minister requested the children of the families to pursue their studies attentively and use the financial assistance for essential family expenses.
The press secretary said the prime minister also asked the authorities concerned to
give five buses for carrying the students and build an underpass near Ramiz Uddin School and College on Airport Road.
The prime minister also directed the deployment of special traffic policemen and construction of speed breakers in front of all city schools.
She said the government already took necessary steps to avert such accident in future, stop the movement of vehicles without fitness and resting arrangement for drivers on highways.
Karim said parents expressed gratitude to the prime minister and hoped that the agitating students would go back to home.
Diya Khanam Mim and Abdul Karim Rajib were killed as a Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan bus ploughed through them on July 29.
Meanwhile, The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) yesterday alleged that a vested quarter is deliberately circulating false and fabricated news in the name of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina using some online news portals, in a bid to mislead the agitated students and the countrymen as well.
The PMO came up with the allegation through a press release signed by PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim.
The media release said the false and fabricated news items are being spread through the social media, which have no basis.
The release also called upon the students not to be misguided through such fake news items. – Staff Reporter
