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Bangladesh Autorickshaw-Auto-tempo Transport Workers Federation (BAATWF), an association of transport workers, in a statement on Tuesday said many auto-rickshaw and auto-tempo workers have been passing their days in an acute financial hardship with their family members due to the suspension of motorized vehicles’ movement in compliance with the government order to prevent coronavirus.
“We’ve already sent written applications to the Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief Bangladesh, Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges, and Deputy Commissioner’s (DC’s) Office of Dhaka seeking help but yet to get any result,” said BAATWF president Md Fulmia Bhuiyan and general secretary Md Golam Faruk in the statement.
If this situation continues, they said, many of the auto-rickshaw, auto-tempo workers will die for lack of food even before they die from coronavirus.
They made an earnest appeal to the authorities concerned to save the auto-rickshaw and auto-tempo workers and their families through providing financial help and relief materials.