A drive to this end will be conducted first in Dhaka and then in other areas, the minister added.

"We cannot allow such an accident because of bumper, which claimed the life of a doctor in the city on Tuesday," he said while briefing newsmen yesterday.

Earlier, the minister chaired the 10th meeting of the National Road Safety Council (NRSC) at his ministry.

The meeting took some decisions to prevent highway robbery and accident and reviewed the progress of implementation of earlier decisions in this regard taken in the previous meeting.

The decisions include formation of a 10-member Upazila Road Safety Committee in each upazila, headed by the upazila nirbahi officer, and installation of video system at the bus stands across the country.

The NRSC also decided to introduce a technical checking system to ensure that inter-district transports do not move even with minor technical faults such as defective lights. Besides, drivers and passengers who sit on the front side of buses will have to fasten seatbelts, it decided.

"We want to implement these decisions in the next six months to one year," the minister said.

Nazmul Huda further said rickshaws will not be allowed on some more major city roads after their condition is improved. The road from New Market to Russell Square would be off-limits to rickshaws just after completion of its improvement under the Dhaka Urban Transport Project (DUTP).

The meeting discussed operation of a radio channel for traffic in the capital and asked the authorities concerned to make traffic signalling system operative in the capital.

The meeting was attended by, among others, Jalaluddin Ahmed, chairman of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA); actor Ilias Kanchan, who is involved in Nirapad Sharak Chai movement; officials of the local government and rural development (LGRD) ministry, the Roads and Highways Department and the Dhaka City Corporation.

Later, two short films on road accidents were screened.