The government is expected to give the green light to “Seating Service” buses in Dhaka after a combined committee on fair public transport service came out in favour of the practice. They pressurised the government to permit the illegal seating service,” BPWA Secretary General Mozammel Haque said. The BRTA will fix the number of buses that a company can operate as a Seating Service on a case-by-case basis. “Currently Seating Service is running without any guidelines (and) operators can demand any fare they want,” he said. “When a seating service bus gets a fixed colour for each route, no one will be able to operate a local bus as a seating service.”

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 22, 2017 16:30 UTC