BSS, Rajshahi :
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has been implementing a Taka 173-crore road development project aimed at lessening the gradually mounting pressure on the existing roads.
Population density has gradually been increasing in the metropolis with the influx of huge city-bound people and multiplication of high rise buildings.
Taking the issues into special consideration, the city corporation has taken steps to reshuffle the city’s road system.
City Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton revealed this while addressing a public meeting on the occasion of inaugurating a road elevation project at Bilshimla area in the city on Tuesday afternoon as chief guest.
Presided over by RCC Ward Councilor Nizam-ul-Azim, the meeting was addressed, among others, by Panel Mayors Shariful Islam and Tahera Khatun, Superintending Engineer Khandaker Khairul Basher and Executive Engineer Nur Islam.
The existing Bilsimla-Kasiadanga road will be elevated to four-lane with separate 7.8-feet wide bicycle-lane and 10-feet wide footpath on both sides of the road along with a four-foot wide road divider at a cost of Tk 26.75 crore.
Mayor Liton told the meeting that the city corporation has also taken an initiative to implement a road network project involving around Tk 3,000 crore aimed at freeing the city from traffic jam.
In the first phase, 15 roads will be widened to 42 metres with a 30-metre main road and six-metre footpath on both sides each.
He said that another Tk 182.68 crore road construction project is being implemented along with construction of a flyover with ramp on the road over the railway tracks at Budhpara Railway Crossing at an estimated cost of Tk 29.28 crore for the first time in the city at present.
Twenty-five streets had been brought under the lighting scheme with Tk 27 crore. Installation of 1,285 poles, including 1,173 LED and 112 solar lights, has been completed.
Beautification and installation of lights at nine street-crossings were implemented at a cost of around Tk 2.76 crore.
Tree plantation programme launched: Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) here on Tuesday formally launched programme of transplanting 14,500 tree saplings in the current season aims at safeguarding the city environment and biodiversity.
Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, who opened the programme through transplanting a tree sapling at embankment of the River Padma, urged the city dwellers to extend their whole-hearted support to make the programme a total success.
Discussing and devising ways and means on how to attain the transplantation goal he said massive tree plantation can help reduce carbon emission at a substantial level and that is very important to protect ecological balance in the dried region.
He said all quarters should take the responsibility of protecting the city and its adjacent areas from the adverse impact of climate change and massive plantation can be the vital means of attaining the cherished goal.
Liton urged the participants of the launching programme to plant tree saplings including the fruit trees in all vacant places and other catchment area of all institutions to create a greenery atmosphere everywhere in the city.
There is no alternative to creating more forest area to address the adverse impacts of climate change caused by global warming.
Fruit tree plantation can be the effective means of meeting nutritional demands with food security and ecological balance, he added.
Chaired by Panel Mayor Shariful Islam Babu, the meeting was addressed, among others, by Panel Mayor Tahera Khatun, Ward Councilors Rejaunnabi Dudu, Md Kamruzzaman and Matiur Rahman, Chief Engineer Ashraful Haque and Executive Engineer Nur Islam.
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has been implementing a Taka 173-crore road development project aimed at lessening the gradually mounting pressure on the existing roads.
Population density has gradually been increasing in the metropolis with the influx of huge city-bound people and multiplication of high rise buildings.
Taking the issues into special consideration, the city corporation has taken steps to reshuffle the city’s road system.
City Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton revealed this while addressing a public meeting on the occasion of inaugurating a road elevation project at Bilshimla area in the city on Tuesday afternoon as chief guest.
Presided over by RCC Ward Councilor Nizam-ul-Azim, the meeting was addressed, among others, by Panel Mayors Shariful Islam and Tahera Khatun, Superintending Engineer Khandaker Khairul Basher and Executive Engineer Nur Islam.
The existing Bilsimla-Kasiadanga road will be elevated to four-lane with separate 7.8-feet wide bicycle-lane and 10-feet wide footpath on both sides of the road along with a four-foot wide road divider at a cost of Tk 26.75 crore.
Mayor Liton told the meeting that the city corporation has also taken an initiative to implement a road network project involving around Tk 3,000 crore aimed at freeing the city from traffic jam.
In the first phase, 15 roads will be widened to 42 metres with a 30-metre main road and six-metre footpath on both sides each.
He said that another Tk 182.68 crore road construction project is being implemented along with construction of a flyover with ramp on the road over the railway tracks at Budhpara Railway Crossing at an estimated cost of Tk 29.28 crore for the first time in the city at present.
Twenty-five streets had been brought under the lighting scheme with Tk 27 crore. Installation of 1,285 poles, including 1,173 LED and 112 solar lights, has been completed.
Beautification and installation of lights at nine street-crossings were implemented at a cost of around Tk 2.76 crore.
Tree plantation programme launched: Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) here on Tuesday formally launched programme of transplanting 14,500 tree saplings in the current season aims at safeguarding the city environment and biodiversity.
Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, who opened the programme through transplanting a tree sapling at embankment of the River Padma, urged the city dwellers to extend their whole-hearted support to make the programme a total success.
Discussing and devising ways and means on how to attain the transplantation goal he said massive tree plantation can help reduce carbon emission at a substantial level and that is very important to protect ecological balance in the dried region.
He said all quarters should take the responsibility of protecting the city and its adjacent areas from the adverse impact of climate change and massive plantation can be the vital means of attaining the cherished goal.
Liton urged the participants of the launching programme to plant tree saplings including the fruit trees in all vacant places and other catchment area of all institutions to create a greenery atmosphere everywhere in the city.
There is no alternative to creating more forest area to address the adverse impacts of climate change caused by global warming.
Fruit tree plantation can be the effective means of meeting nutritional demands with food security and ecological balance, he added.
Chaired by Panel Mayor Shariful Islam Babu, the meeting was addressed, among others, by Panel Mayor Tahera Khatun, Ward Councilors Rejaunnabi Dudu, Md Kamruzzaman and Matiur Rahman, Chief Engineer Ashraful Haque and Executive Engineer Nur Islam.
