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The association has deployed its people at bus stands to monitor whether anyone was violating the government instructions.
While visiting Gabtoli, Shyamoli, Kalyanpur and Mazar Road in Dhaka in the morning, our photojournalist Palash Khan found transport workers asking passengers using loudspeakers to wear masks before boarding buses.
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Officials at the counters of Shyamoli Paribahan and Hanif Paribahan said the number of passengers were less than their expectation.
Khairul Islam, divisional transport officer (Dhaka) of Bangladesh Railway, said five passenger trains left Dhaka s Kamalapur Railway Station since this morning.
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It is not possible for the authorities to intercept this huge crowd, he said.
Photo: Amran Hossain
The authorities were supposed to allow only ambulances and vehicles carrying patients and the dead, but people on their way to their village homes who reached the terminal via whatever vehicle they could avail, boarded the ferry ignoring all restrictions.
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members were seen discharging their duties one km off the Shimulia ghat, but passengers were rushing through various routes.
Police put barricade on Dhaka-Mawa highway and were seen refusing vehicles trying to reach the ghat.
Hundreds of passengers were seen waiting at the ghat at 1:00pm today.
Thousands of homebound people are leaving Dhaka city, boarding whatever vehicles they found on the streets posing a great risk of Covid-19 spread across the country. Visiting Gabtoli, Hemayetpur and Sayedabad, our correspondents found that thousands of homebound people thronged at the exit points of Dhaka and other peripheral areas, waiting for vehicles to go to their
This year, the theme for this historic day in Bangladesh is Sramik-Malik Nirbishesh, Mujib Borshe-Gorbo Desh .
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President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued separate messages ahead of the day.
President Hamid called upon the owners of mills and factories to assist the government in standing by the vulnerable workers bearing the brunt of the pandemic.
Prime Minister Hasina also remembered the role of Bangabandhu in establishing the rights of the exploited and working-class people. Bangabandhu formulated labour policy 1972 in order to establish an exploitation free and equal society. He nationalised the mills and factories to strengthen the economy while ensuring the rights of the workers, she said.