In present competitive world women has to work hard to survive beside man. Many times they have to come out in early morning and return late night. Most women travel by bus to school, college, university, office.
Men and women travel together on bus. But they have to constantly bear with wrong and injustice. And whoever revolts has to face harassment and, who just keeps mouth shut and bear there is no girl like her. It’s hard to get a bus during office time due to crowd. The bus comes filled from wherever it starts. That’s why passengers of next stoppages have to ride standing even within crowd. Sometimes a young man will give his seat away to an elderly woman. But this scene is really rare nowadays.
According to Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTC) law, 9 seats in big buses and 6 in small buses are reserved for women, children and disabled. Including this reserved sits women can sit in other seats as well. If any man is sitting on reserved seats then he has to give it away as soon as a woman gets on bus. But this rule is not followed.
Sometimes men and women are seen arguing about reserved seats. A young girl was describing her experience like this - "so one day through the heavy crowd I somehow got up on a bus from Farmgate. An old women and a private university teacher were also standing with me. Men were sitting in all 9 reserve seats. One of them got up immediately after that woman asked to and other two said we paid fair. But that apu is adamant, they have to get up. At one stage a severe argument took place about this. Even few old women sitting at the back were saying, see, as a woman how she is arguing with men. I requested apu not to talk. She told me, this happens because you do not retaliate. At last one guy let go of the sit after reaching Banani from Farmgate. That apu sat and asked me to sit."
Another day; few students of Titumir College got up from Mohakhali on Ekushey Transportation and see there are no seats. When all of them asked men to let go of reserved seats, many men replied simultaneously ‘why?’ Girls pointed their attention and told ‘see it is written there, reserved sits.’ They said satirically ‘Oh, it’s reserved for disabled, are you disabled?’
Someone else said ‘Women are disabled and imbalanced, they wan to depend on men and live’ At this stage bus helper came and said ‘get up and let them sit.’ Then they actually got up.
But there are quite opposite pictures as well. Even if there are men sitting on reserved seats they let go when they see women. In our neighboring country India every bus has equally reserved seats for both men and women. If either men or women are more in number they will ride standing. But as this is the rule in our country women gets to be harassed constantly while traveling by bus. Who knows when this era of harassment will end in Bangladesh.
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