Dhaka, Oct. 16 -- The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has made it mandatory for motorcycles to display number plates at the front, setting November 15 as the deadline for installation.

Motorcycle owners must install manually made number plates at the front in addition to the digital plates already required at the rear. Those who fail to comply by the deadline will face legal action, it said.

In an urgent public notice issued on Friday, the BRTA said the Road Transport Act, 2018 and the Road Transport Rules, 2022 already require motorcycles to have retro-reflective number plates equipped with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags at the rear.

To strengthen traffic management and surveillance, the authority has now decide...