City Desk :
Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan said the government has taken programmes to re-excavate the unusable rivers of the country to revive their navigability.
“The capital dredging of all 53 river routes of the country would be done,” he said this on Thursday after inaugurating the dredging work of Hazratpur-Zabra route of the Dhaleshwari and Kaliganga rivers on Jamsha bridge side in Manikganj district.
It is one of the three river routes dredging projects being implemented under the Prime Minister’s Capital Dredging Project.
Momtaj Begum, MP, Commodore Mozammel, Chairman of BIWTA, Md. Nazmus Sadat Salim, Deputy Commissioner, Advocate Golam Mohiuddin, Chairman, Manikganj Zila Parishad, and Additional SP Zakir Hossain were present at the function among others.
The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has taken up the dredging projects to restore the Hazratpur-Zabra, Char Tekerhat-Shibchar and Khulna-Noapara river routes at a cost of Taka 97.82 crore.
A total of 63 lakh cubic metres of earth spoil are to be removed from the three river routes totalling a length of 121.5 km.
Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan said the government has taken programmes to re-excavate the unusable rivers of the country to revive their navigability.
“The capital dredging of all 53 river routes of the country would be done,” he said this on Thursday after inaugurating the dredging work of Hazratpur-Zabra route of the Dhaleshwari and Kaliganga rivers on Jamsha bridge side in Manikganj district.
It is one of the three river routes dredging projects being implemented under the Prime Minister’s Capital Dredging Project.
Momtaj Begum, MP, Commodore Mozammel, Chairman of BIWTA, Md. Nazmus Sadat Salim, Deputy Commissioner, Advocate Golam Mohiuddin, Chairman, Manikganj Zila Parishad, and Additional SP Zakir Hossain were present at the function among others.
The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has taken up the dredging projects to restore the Hazratpur-Zabra, Char Tekerhat-Shibchar and Khulna-Noapara river routes at a cost of Taka 97.82 crore.
A total of 63 lakh cubic metres of earth spoil are to be removed from the three river routes totalling a length of 121.5 km.
