Staff Reporter :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will open country’s first 8-lane highway from Jatrabari to Kanchpur through a videoconference from her official residence Ganobhaban today.
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said it to journalists after visiting the road.
Sources said, the government has spent Tk 132 crore for construction of
the seven and a half kilometer road.
The videoconference will be held in the morning. Sheikh Hasina will also inaugurate the construction works from Jatrabari intersection to Mawa, including Ikuria-Babubazar link, and upgradation of Pachhar-Bhanga Highway to a four-lane one with a separate service lane on both ways for the slow-moving vehicles. This road is also known as Padma Bridge Link Road.
The transport owners and staff expressed their hopes that Jatrabari-Kanchpur Highway as the main corridor for the entrance and exit of vehicles plying the Dhaka-Chittagong and Dhaka-Sylhet Highways, will largely contribute towards easing gridlock on these busy highways.
Officials of the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) said the RHD and the Special Works Organization (West) of Bangladesh Army will jointly implement the Padma Bridge Link Road Project by April 2019 at an estimated cost of Tk 6252.28 crore.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will open country’s first 8-lane highway from Jatrabari to Kanchpur through a videoconference from her official residence Ganobhaban today.
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said it to journalists after visiting the road.
Sources said, the government has spent Tk 132 crore for construction of
the seven and a half kilometer road.
The videoconference will be held in the morning. Sheikh Hasina will also inaugurate the construction works from Jatrabari intersection to Mawa, including Ikuria-Babubazar link, and upgradation of Pachhar-Bhanga Highway to a four-lane one with a separate service lane on both ways for the slow-moving vehicles. This road is also known as Padma Bridge Link Road.
The transport owners and staff expressed their hopes that Jatrabari-Kanchpur Highway as the main corridor for the entrance and exit of vehicles plying the Dhaka-Chittagong and Dhaka-Sylhet Highways, will largely contribute towards easing gridlock on these busy highways.
Officials of the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) said the RHD and the Special Works Organization (West) of Bangladesh Army will jointly implement the Padma Bridge Link Road Project by April 2019 at an estimated cost of Tk 6252.28 crore.
