Dhaka, Feb. 21 -- A Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) workshop, which was shut down in 2012, has been brought back to life, and it has regained its capacity to overhaul heavy vehicles.

The Integrated Central Workshop (ICWS) in Gazipur can now fix engines, bodies, tyres, etc.

It has overhauled 113 heavy vehicles so far since its reopening in mid-2024, saving BRTC's maintenance and operating costs significantly.

Apart from overhauling vehicles, there are also plans to assemble new ones to increase the BRTC fleet size, officials said.

BRTC General Manager (Technical) Mohammad Jahangir Hossain said they have taken an initiative to assemble new buses by buying chassis, which will reduce the corporation's overall costs by at leas...