Chief of Army Staff of Qatar Lt. Gen. (Pilot) Salem Hamad Al-Akil Al-Nabet pays a courtesy call on Chief of Army Staff General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed at the Army Headquarters of Dhaka Cantonment on Tuesday. ISPR photo

Showpiece projects face setback

Kazi Zahidul Hasan :Most of the government’s ‘showpiece projects’ are struggling to come out timely because of inefficiency of the implementing agencies and bureaucratic tangle.These projects have been taken by the government during its current and previous tenures to bring out rapid pace of infrastructure development in the country. The mega projects include several flyovers and mass transit projects in Dhaka, highway projects, power and railway projects, and sea ports. But most of them are yet to be completed.Officials said,...

11 Feb 2017, 12:00 am