The Dhaka Times Desk The construction of Padma Bridge, the much-discussed and awaited big project of the country, is starting in June this year itself, confirmed the fact. Communication Minister Obaidul Quader.
In a press conference organized at Setu Bhaban on Thursday, Communications Minister Mr. Obaidul Quader told the reporters that today I am going to give you a good news, through you the countrymen will know that we are going to build the Padma Bridge this year to establish road and rail connectivity between Dhaka and South Western region. month of june I am going to start from
At the time, the minister said that everything from the design of the project will remain the same as before, but only the financing system has changed. Now we will give the money ourselves, we will also build the bridge and this project has been named Padma is multipurpose project.
Mr. Obaidul Quader He said that land acquisition and rehabilitation work for construction of bridge infrastructure on both banks of Padma has already been completed. Now waiting to start the construction of the main bridge. The minister also said that in this project, the cost of construction of main bridge and small bridges for road and rail communication has been estimated Nine thousand 172 crore 17 lakh taka. Costs for river management have been estimated Five thousand 362 crore 68 lakh taka.
It is to be noted that earlier the World Bank, ADP, JICA were supposed to finance the Padma Bridge but they backed out of the project citing corruption. Later on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina He announced that the needs and demands of the people of the south-western part of Bengal would be financed by Bangladesh's own funds for the Padma Bridge.
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