Padma Bridge opens to traffic at year end: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday advised the parliament that the prolonged-cherished Padma Bridge will open up to targeted visitors at the end of this year, expressing the development progress of the major bridge is 96.50 %, reviews BSS.
“The construction do the job is progressing quick aimed at opening the Padma Bridge to targeted visitors at the end of 2022,” she reported.
She explained this even though replying to a tabled query from a treasury bench lawmaker from Naogaon-2 Md Shahiduzzaman Sarker through the PM’s dilemma-response session.
The 16th session of the 11th Jatiya Sangsad resumed this early morning with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair.
The key minister named the construction of the Padma Bridge undertaking as most difficult in country’s heritage, expressing, “The Padma Bridge is going to open in a developing country like Bangladesh confronting all the hurdles.”
She claimed that the ongoing development get the job done of carpeting, viaduct carpeting, watertight membrane, movement joint of key bridge and viaduct, lamppost, aluminum railing, fuel pipeline, 400 KVA electric power and railway line is in development.
The key minister claimed the design of a 27 kilometres url highway from Nawdoba, Shariatpur stop to the district city has now started out.
She claimed her government has started the constructing of the country’s greatest bridge — 6.15 kilometres prolonged and 18.10 metres extensive — in 2014 with very own finance in 2014.
The construction was meant to start off in January 2009 and conclude in December 2015, she claimed, incorporating: “But thanks to the conspiracy by a vested area of persons in the nation, the Planet Financial institution stopped funding to construct the bridge”.
The premier claimed that the revised price range of the Padma Bridge undertaking is Tk 30,193.39 crore.
Sheikh Hasina said constructions of infrastructures are essential for the country’s improvement.
She extra: “So, the federal government has presented significance to produce the infrastructures. A massive adjust has been created throughout the past ten years through her govt. Now, the nation is starting up a journey on the improvement highways.”
The govt has taken several mega projects for making sure the country’s over-all progress, she continued.
Sheikh Hasina, also the chief of the Home, explained to the parliament that her govt took 17 notable mega jobs which are now being implemented.
The mega tasks include Padma Multipurpose Bridge Development Undertaking, Rooppur Nuclear Electrical power Plant, Moitre Super Tharmal Ability Job (Rampal), Dhaka Mass Swift Transit Advancement Challenge, LNG Terminal and Gasoline Pipeline Building Venture, Paira Sea Port, Paira Thermal Power Plant, Padma Bridge Rail Backlink Undertaking, Cox’s Bazar Airport Improvement Job, and Ashrayan Task.