Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the much-awaited four-lane Second Meghna Bridge and the Second Gumti Bridge on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway on Saturday morning. She opened the two bridges through a videoconference from her official residence Ganabhaban here.
The Prime Minister also opened two flyovers-Konabari and Chandra flyovers, four underpasses-Kaliakair, Deohata, Mirzapur and Gharinda underpasses, and two more bridges-Kadda-1 and Bimail bridges, on the Joydebpur-Chandra-Tangail-Elenga Highway under the SASEC Road Link Project. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader gave welcome address on the occasion while Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque and Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque were present on the dais. Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Hiroyasu Izumi also spoke on the occasion.
PM’s Principal Secretary Md Nojibur Rahman moderated the inaugural ceremony while Secretary of Road Transport and Highways Division Md Nazrul Islam gave brief pictorial and video presentation of the uplift schemes.Earlier, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the Second Shitalakkhya Bridge on the river on March 16 this year.
