Dhaka, April 25 -- The private sector is mostly blamed for damaging highways for carrying overloaded goods, so are government agencies to blame equally for conveying overweight building materials and heavy machinery to different project sites.

In these cases, sources say, allowable limit becomes unlimited on phone calls and threats from influential quarters.

The Roads and Highways Department (RHD), which continues to face challenges in controlling overloading to save its 4,000-kilometre artery, often faced such pressure from agencies like the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh, the Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited and the Bangladesh Power Development Board.

Although these agencies are responsible for building third terminal of Dh...