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Elenga-Rangpur road being 4-lane highway

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Published: 12:32, 18 February 2019   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Elenga-Rangpur road being 4-lane highway

Special Correspondent: The government is set to expand Elenga-Hatikamrul-Rangpur road into a four-lane highway aiming to facilitate movement of people and goods between northern districts and the capital city.

The government will upgrade the 190km Elenga-Hatikamrul-Rangpur four-lane highway at a cost of Tk769.39 crore.

Including this project, the Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase has approved a total of seven purchase proposals which will be implemented at a cost of Tk1,742 crore.

The proposals were given approval at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase at the conference room of the Cabinet Division in the secretariat on Monday with Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in the chair.

After the meeting, Additional Secretary to the Cabinet Division Nasima Begum briefed reporters about the different aspects of the proposals approved.

With financial support of Asian Development Bank (ADB), Roads and Highways Department (RHD) will implement the mega project in partnership with a China-Bangladesh joint venture construction company.

To this effect, the RHD signed an agreement with the joint venture (JV) Hego (China)-Mir Akhter (Bangladesh) at a ceremony held at a city hotel on January 24.

According to the project highlights, there will be three flyovers at Elenga, Kodda crossing and Gobindaganj on the 190.4-kilometre long highway to help reduce traffic congestion.

Besides, there will be a railway overpass, 26 bridges, 161 culverts, 39 underpasses and 11 footbridges.

The tenure of the project, approved by the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council in September 2016, is from September 2016 to August 2021.

The ADB-funded mega project is being implemented under South Asia Sub-regional Economic Cooperation (SASEC).


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