UNB, Dhaka :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the government wants to improve the country’s road network as it can accelerate its socio-economic development.
“The more the country’s communication network will be developed, the greater change will be there in its socio-economic scenario,” she said after inaugurating Satrasta-to-Ramna Thana part of the ongoing Moghbazar-Mouchak Flyover Project at Officers’ Club in the city. With the developed communication network, the Prime Minister said, the people living in remote areas of the country will be able to take initiatives for the improvement of their lifestyle. “They’ll be able to engage themselves in various types of activities,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina her government has taken numerous programmes to develop the communication network across the country so that Bangladesh can attain a middle-income country status by 2021. “We’ve taken various programmes since 2009 and implementing those gradually,” she said.
The Prime Minister said there should be a government organisation for the communication sector, or else, this sector will be dominated by the private sector, causing sufferings to people. She also recalled the initiative of the BNP-Jamaat government to abolish the BRTC bus service following the suggestion of a donor agency. “But returning to power, we’ve taken various measurers to strengthen the BRTC.
“If we leave the sector to private owners, then they’ll increase the fare as per their sweet wish and people will suffer. That’s why we’ve given importance to the railway sector and created a separate ministry
for this,” she told the function. Hasina said, the government has also been working hard to improve the waterway communication through capital dredging and maintenance dredging of the country’s rivers. She said the government has taken steps to improve the communication network with neighbouring countries as well.
Referring to the nagging traffic congestion in the capital, the Prime Minister said her government, after coming to power in 1996, had taken various projects for the capital city to ease the traffic congestion, but unfortunately those were not continued by the successive government.
LGRD Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain and Saudi Ambassador to Bangladsh Abdullah HM Al-Mutairi and LGRD secretary Abdul Malek also spoke on the occasion. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan, Civil Aviation Minister Rashed Khan Menon, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on LGRD Ministry Abul Hasnat Abdullah, mayors of Dhaka North and South City Corporations Annisul Haque and Sayeed Khokan were present.
Shyama Prasad Adhikari, Chief Engineer of Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), made a presentation on different aspects of the project, which he said was implemented as part of Dhaka Strategic Transport Plan (STP). Earlier, the Prime Minister inaugurated of the first part of the ongoing Moghbazar-Mouchak Flyover Project from Satrasta to Ramna thana point. She opened the 2.11-km part of the 8.7-km flyover to traffic through unveiling a plaque.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the government wants to improve the country’s road network as it can accelerate its socio-economic development.
“The more the country’s communication network will be developed, the greater change will be there in its socio-economic scenario,” she said after inaugurating Satrasta-to-Ramna Thana part of the ongoing Moghbazar-Mouchak Flyover Project at Officers’ Club in the city. With the developed communication network, the Prime Minister said, the people living in remote areas of the country will be able to take initiatives for the improvement of their lifestyle. “They’ll be able to engage themselves in various types of activities,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina her government has taken numerous programmes to develop the communication network across the country so that Bangladesh can attain a middle-income country status by 2021. “We’ve taken various programmes since 2009 and implementing those gradually,” she said.
The Prime Minister said there should be a government organisation for the communication sector, or else, this sector will be dominated by the private sector, causing sufferings to people. She also recalled the initiative of the BNP-Jamaat government to abolish the BRTC bus service following the suggestion of a donor agency. “But returning to power, we’ve taken various measurers to strengthen the BRTC.
“If we leave the sector to private owners, then they’ll increase the fare as per their sweet wish and people will suffer. That’s why we’ve given importance to the railway sector and created a separate ministry
for this,” she told the function. Hasina said, the government has also been working hard to improve the waterway communication through capital dredging and maintenance dredging of the country’s rivers. She said the government has taken steps to improve the communication network with neighbouring countries as well.
Referring to the nagging traffic congestion in the capital, the Prime Minister said her government, after coming to power in 1996, had taken various projects for the capital city to ease the traffic congestion, but unfortunately those were not continued by the successive government.
LGRD Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain and Saudi Ambassador to Bangladsh Abdullah HM Al-Mutairi and LGRD secretary Abdul Malek also spoke on the occasion. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan, Civil Aviation Minister Rashed Khan Menon, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on LGRD Ministry Abul Hasnat Abdullah, mayors of Dhaka North and South City Corporations Annisul Haque and Sayeed Khokan were present.
Shyama Prasad Adhikari, Chief Engineer of Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), made a presentation on different aspects of the project, which he said was implemented as part of Dhaka Strategic Transport Plan (STP). Earlier, the Prime Minister inaugurated of the first part of the ongoing Moghbazar-Mouchak Flyover Project from Satrasta to Ramna thana point. She opened the 2.11-km part of the 8.7-km flyover to traffic through unveiling a plaque.
