Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) administrator Mohammd Ejaj, on Tuesday, said battery-run rickshaw will not be allowed to run in the main roads of the capital.
“From now on we will no longer allow any battery-run rickshaw to be operated in the capital’s highways, BSS reports.
However, we will allow E-Rickshaw to operate on the internal roads maintaining the standard,” DNCC administrator said at a seminar.
Organized by DNCC, the seminar was arranged to determine policies and measures regarding battery-run Rickshaw operation in the city and to follow up the updates of developing standard prototypes of E-Rickshaw.
The DNCC administrator announced that a high-level committee will be formed soon to determine the policies and standard of the E-Rickshaw.
In the seminar, the DNCC authority called upon the prototype manufacturing companies to follow the proposal of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology’s (BUET) BEPRC Easy Bike project.
DNCC Chief Executive Officer Abu Sayeed Md. Kamruzzaman, NDC chief engineer Brig. Gen. Md. Moin Uddin, DNCC general manager (Transport) Abdullah Al Masud, representatives from battery-run rickshaw (E-Rickshaw) manufacturing companies were present at the seminar.
