Road master intend to state status, needs: Kamal
The government has made a decision to draft a master anticipate roads to take stock of the current network and discover future requirements, said Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal yesterday.
Your choice was taken after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a gathering of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council on Tuesday needed putting focus on maintenance aside from construction of new roads, he said.
The prime minister also opposed destruction of farmlands to make method for the construction of roads, according to Kamal.
"We have decided to formulate a master plan on roads to see how many roads we have got now and how many roads we will require in the next 20, 30 or 50 years."
Kamal made the comments at a meeting of the cabinet committee on purchase at the secretariat. The committee approved four proposals involving Tk 334 crore.
Among the purchase proposals involved Tk 43.95 crore for a "Dhaka City Neighborhood Upgrading Project" being implemented by Dhaka South City Corporation.
The work visited a joint venture of Dohwa Engineering Co, Junglim Architecture Co of Korea, Dev Consultants, Design Planning & Management Consultants and the Tanya Karim NR Khan and Associates.
Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) received permission to get 30,000 tonnes of phosphoric acid from its subsidiary DAP Fertilizer Company for Tk 87.97 crore.
The organization also got the nod to import 25,000 tonnes of bagged granular urea from Muntajat of Qatar (Qatar Chemical and Petrochemical Marketing and Distribution Company) for Tk 61.21 crore.
The committee gave the go-ahead to a proposal to award the work to convert the Kushtia town part of the Jhenaidah-Kushtia-Pakshi-Dashuria National Highway to four lanes to the cheapest bidder, Jahirul Limited. The conversion would cost Tk 141.25 crore.
The purchase committee's last approval was to a proposal for cancelling the purchase offer of Tk 105 crore for a public works package of the Shariatpur (Monohor Bazar)-Ibrahimpur Ferry Ghat Road Development Project as only 1 bidder had participated.
It instructed starting the procedure for a fresh procurement proposal.
