[sustran] Re: FW: [gatnet] Re: Tempo Boys

[Mohsin J. Sarker]

Hello

I am a Bangladeshi and a transportation planner, now
working in Japan. 

The matter regarding Tempo boys or children involved
in work is a concern of many of us. From my point of
view and experience, we should first ask ourselves
that why they are working. It is not a game so they
are enjoying. Working is hard for children. Why
mothers or fathers are sending or forcing their
children to work, where parents are concerned about
safety and health of their loving children in
developed countries. Of course parents of under
developed countries also love their children; they
also don't want their loving children to work instead
playing and study. But unfortunately, they have no
other alternative to urged their children to work. 

As we know there is very job scarcity in Bangladesh.
Moreover the earning of parents only is not enough to
bear family expenses including school cost of their
children. Children are working for food and to help
their parents. 

So, instead of providing scope to earn more for
parents, preventing children from work, will increase
crime, worsen the social condition more.

Children in Bangladesh are working very hard. There
are many street children who work in day and study at
night. In oder to put them out of work automatically,
we need to provide more job and scope of better
earning for their parents.

Dr. Mohsin J. Sarker
Transportation Planner
CIS, Utsunomiya, Japan.
 
--- Paul Barter <paulbarter at nus.edu.sg> wrote:

> Something from another list (gender and transport)
> that might be of
> interest to some here on sustran-discuss.
> Paul
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: hafiza at bangla.net [mailto:hafiza at bangla.net]
> 
> > Sent: Thursday, 3 February 2005 10:59 AM
> > To: Gender and Transport
> > Subject: [gatnet] Re: Tempo Boys
> > 
> > 
> > > Dear Priyanthy
> > The teen  age tempo boys are still there working
> in Dhaka. As 
> > you know government has withdrawn the two stroke
> Engine 
> > tempos from Dhaka city, these are being replaced
> by four 
> > stroke engine tempos run by CNG. These tempos are
> operating 
> > not at the central part of the city but certainly
> in 
> > different routes connecting nodal points of Dhaka
> with its 
> > fringe areas. Tempo bys are still working there.
> On the other 
> > hand the two stroke engine tempos are operating in
> district 
> > towns (small towns) or the suburban areas at the
> periphery of 
> > Dhaka city (out side the City Corporation).
> > These tempo boys are still there. Over time many
> of them have 
> > eventually became driver of tempo or some other
> vehicle, 
> > operator of mini or big buses. Some of them became
> the 
> > workers indifferent workshops. In other words most
> of them 
> > are still involved with transport related
> activities directly 
> > or indirectly.
> > However it is remarkable that average age of the
> tempo boys 
> > has increased than the previous ones but still
> most of them 
> > are in teen age.
> > Regards Hafiza
> > 
> > Quoting Priyanthi <priyanthi.fernando at ifrtd.org>:
> > 
> > > A question for our Bangladeshi friends,.but one
> that might interest 
> > > everyone on this list.
> > >
> > 
> > >
> > > In the February 2001 issue of IFRTD's Forum News
> (check out our 
> > > website www.ifrtd.org <http://www.ifrtd.org/> 
> for a copy) 
> > we had an 
> > > article about the tempo boys. Four years later,
> do you still find 
> > > them?  Would like to know - as they raise issues
> relating 
> > to children as transporters.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Priyanthi
> 
> 
>
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Mohsin J. Sarker
Kenei Hiramatsu Jutaku 5-24
HIramatsu Honcho 780
Utsunomiya, Tochigi
Japan 321-0932
Tel: +81-(0)28-661-9019 (res)
     +81-(0)90-3543-3595 (mob)
Email: bado at athena.ocn.ne.jp

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