Dhaka, April 22 -- When most driving seats are occupied by millions of unprofessional, untrained drivers risking passengers' lives almost daily, the authorities concerned hardly pay any heed to train them for road safety.

However, a small part of a fresh Tk 49.8-billion project involving four agencies plans to train 60,000 new drivers to ensure road safety keeping no space for training existing 3.0-million drivers. The project is in the planning stage, the development project proposal (DPP) of which has been finalised.

But the agencies, including the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority, the Bangladesh Police and the Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation, have separate road-safety schemes with funds from different partners.

According to...