The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has issued instructions asking motorized vehicles plying in Dhaka metropolis areas no longer to use excessive-pitched horns.
A notification in this regard used to be issued by DMP Commissioner Sheikh Md Sajjat Ali the day gone by evening (12 December).
The notification said that if any motor automobile driver, owner, or working organisation fails to conform with the instructions after the newsletter of the notification, stern actions will doubtless be taken against them.
The DMP has sought cooperation of all concerned to this conclude.
Extreme health hazards are being created for pedestrians, passengers, diversified automobile drivers, metropolis dwellers, and particularly ill americans as a consequence of the use of excessive-pitched horns, the notification said.
The DMP has requested the motor automobile drivers no longer to use excessive-pitched horns per the provisions of share 45 of the Motorway Transport Act-2018.
Motor automobile drivers, owners, or working organisations are additionally requested no longer to set up or reinstall any plan, share, or horn that creates noise ranges beyond the prescribed noise stage.
Moreover, as per Rule 81 of the Motorway Transport Principles 2022, instructions be pleased been given no longer to set up or use any multipurpose horn that emits diversified tones in succession or any horn or plan that produces a keen, harsh, sudden, loud, or frightening sound in a motor automobile, it added.
