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Work in Progress

Gulistan-Jatrabari flyover Next Year


The proposed 7.5km Gulistan-Jatrabari flyover will not only ease traffic congestion in the area but improve communication network with the eastern districts as well, speakers at the agreement signing ceremony of the flyover at Nagar Bhaban commented yesterday.

An agreement was signed between Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) and Belhasa-Accom and Associates Ltd, a UAE-Canada-India joint venture for the construction of country's longest flyover stretching from Shanir Akhra to Gulistan at the cost of Tk 706 crore that will start in July.

This will be the third flyover in the country and also the first under private investment.

Bangladeshi Orion, UAE's Belhasa and Indian Accom will complete the project within 30 to 36 months alternately connecting Jatrabari with Gulistan on Build, Own, Operate and Transfer (BOOT) basis. The preliminary work for the flyover has already started.

The flyover is will be a paid ride for city commuters. To ply along the flyover, a motorcycle will have to pay Tk 5, CNG-run autorickshaw Tk 10, car Tk 35, jeep Tk 40, microbus Tk 50, minibus Tk 100 and trailer Tk 200.


http://www.thedailystar.net/2005/06/...6222502123.htm

Asad Gate Museum

Dhaka bypass highway to be completed soon

Communications Minister Barrister Nazmul Huda Sunday said the Dhaka Bypass Highway and the Kanchan Bridge on river Shitalakkhya will be opened within a few months to permanently resolve the capital’s traffic jam problem, reports UNB.

The Minister said this during a visit to project site and exchanging views with the local people and engineers of the bypass project near Joydebpur.

Huda said work on the 48-kilometer-long Bypass Highway at a cost of Tk 241 crore and the Tk 90 crore bridge was nearing completion to connect Joydebpur-Debgram-Bhulta-Nayapur-Madanpur areas of eastern side of Dhaka.

The whole cost of the project is being financed by the government from its own fund, said a press release of the ministry. Buses, trucks and other vehicles coming from greater Sylhet, Chittagong and Comilla areas will be able to bypass capital Dhaka using the new Bypass and Tongi road and move to Mymensingh and through using Bangabandhu Bridge to 16 northern districts, the Minister said.

http://www.bangladesh-web.com/news/v...00000000057624

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Tk 32.7m Osmani Uddyan renovation work starts
8/19/2005

The Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has taken initiatives to renovate the unusable Osmani Uddyan in the city at a cost of Tk 32.7 million, reports BDNEWS.
About 800 harmful trees out of 1100 trees of the Uddyan will be cut down and about 600 wood and fruit-bearing trees will be planted there.
Technical committee member and professor of BUET Nizamuddin Ahmed disclosed this to the journalists while inaugurating Osmani Uddyan renovation programme Thursday.
Osmani Uddyan Management Committee president and environmentalist Serajul Islam Chowdhury inaugurated the programme unveiling the plaque.
Welcoming the initiatives of DCC Serajul Islam told the journalists that Osmani Uddyan, which lies in the city centre, should be an ideal park.
He urged the city dwellers to join with the management of the Uddyan (park) and lend their economical support to its development activities.

BUET teacher Nizamuddin Ahmed said the renovation work will be done in two phases. The first step is to free the park from grabbers, erect boundary walls, dig artificial lake, construct walking roads along the boundary walls and plantation of trees.
The second phase will include: renovation and development works of the lake, construction of inner roads, setting up benches for visitors, children's park and construction of 11 fountains bearing resemblance of 11 sectors of the Liberation War.

thanks dude for sharing the pics and infos

great job!! brought back some great memories... Y_Y

bhai sotti apnar pics gulo dekhe mone desh onek onek egiye gese koto sundor sundor building kitu khyal korle dekha jabe khali shopping center ar shopping center are kichu boro boro office kitu eto population je dhaka city te eta ki kori er kisu pics den kothai kothai beshi manush dekha jay :p

bhai gopibag,
aapnar kothata shotti je dhakay "onek population" thake. so just starting from there, you need "onek of everything". offices, housing, malls, roads and so on... now if we may not have plenty of everything but in some areas we are a success and example in the world.

coming back to the second part of your comments. beside all goods, there are bad sides of everything in the world. for example, if you go to bangalore, india( which is called second siliconvalley of the world) and as soon as you move out of the main area if so poor that you'll be shocked!

In world Economy report, BD considered one of the best place to invest in the world. All the projects that are on going will be completed by 2010. There is project ($10 Billion) to reconstruct Dhaka by 2020 which includes moving all 3500 garments factory outside of dhaka. There is proposed Vision Bangladesh 2020 under consideration. So what i'd say is, if you really to don't see anything to feel positive about Bangladesh, then stay away! there are people working hard for Bangladesh and its sad to see ignorant people like you trying to putdown all their works! learn to respect your roots it deserves and feel proud!!

France, Japan on shortlist to construct Dhaka-Ctg high-speed train line

‘10 int’l companies come up with proposal to construct Dhaka-Ctg electric train line’

French and Japanese railway companies are among six candidates shortlisted by Bangladesh to build a billion-dollar high-speed train service linking the capital and port city of Chittagong, a senior minister said.

"We've shortlisted six foreign companies out of 10 which submitted the expression of interests to the Bangladesh Railway authorities," Communications Minister Nazmul Huda told AFP on Sunday.

Among the six are state-run French railways, SNCF, which operates the high- speed TGV trains and Japan Railways, which operates high-speed bullet trains, Huda said.

The minister said the government had already endorsed the project and hoped to complete the selection of the company for the country's biggest infrastructure investment this year.

"The company will have to lay a new track since the existing lines will not support the high-speed electric track," Huda said.

The electric train service will shorten the 267-kilometre (152-mile) trip between Dhaka and Chittagong from seven hours to one-and-a-half hours, he said.

Chittagong is Bangladesh's second biggest city with a population of more than five million. It is also Bangladesh's only port city, handling some 85 per cent of the country's 17 billion dollars in international trade.

The train link would run adjacent to the Dhaka-Chittagong highway, Bangladesh's main economic corridor and home to most of the country's industries.

"The electric train service is essential to the country's international trade competitiveness as it will shorten the time for export," Huda said.

‘10 int’l companies come up with proposal to construct Dhaka-Ctg electric train line’

Communications Minister Barrister Nazmul Huda today said ten international companies have come up with specific proposals to introduce high speed electric trains between Dhaka and Chittagong as an expression of their interests in the project.

The minister said this while presiding over a meeting to review various development projects of Bangladesh Railway (BR) at Rail Bhaban here today, an official handout said.

The minister said proposals of six out of ten international train- manufacturing companies for the proposed Dhaka- Chittagong fast running electric train project are under active consideration.

He expressed the hope that appreciable progress with regard to all activities pertaining to the introduction of the electric train would be attained within the tenure of the present government.

The meeting also discussed about the progress of rehabilitation works of the east and the west zones of BR, procurement of 41-meter gauge and six broad gauge locomotives and modernization of signaling and interlocking systems of seven stations of the east zone and 14 stations of the west zone.

Besides, the progress reports of transformation of Dhaka-Joydebpur meter gauge into dual gauge and implementation of Rajshahi station remodeling project were also placed before the meeting.

Communications Secretary M Shafiqul Islam, Acting Director General of Bangladesh Railways M Abdullah, Managing Directors of the east and the west zones and the high officials of planning commission, IMED, economic relations division (ERD), finance ministry, planning ministry and communications ministry were also present.

--AFP, BSS

Have we noticed the trend here? Lots of new shopping malls are underconstruction and communication infrustructure is developing too. However, there are hardly any new projects on industrialization. If we want to push forward the country's economy this is where the concentration should be focussed. Anything productive. Worldbank ADB they always ready to give money in these sort of projects but hardly aided in small business developement. It's mostly the NGO that are workign in the rural areas and help people withtehir small businesses. If as a country we want to make a stand, we have to think about the affording capability of the majority of the people. How many people can go to Bashundhara City? Whatever the progress now a days we are seeing in garments industry is due to the individual achievements. It's a process where the riches will be even more powerful eventually.

I'm not against such developements all I'm saying is in the long run that will not help the majority of our countrymen. I watched a story of little boy [unfortunately I forgot the name] in ITTADI, who was lost in hos childhood and then eventually been adopted by a dutch family he finished his MBA in netherland and when he became established he came back to BD and start working with the people of his village. He was helping them establishing deep tubewell and other sanitary applications and help them grow there small businesses. May be his effort is nothing compare to the scale it is needed for the whole country. But atleast he's trying.

jazaman
you are right about couple of things. but you'll have to consider the fact that BD needs to get started somewhere. atleast some soft of activity other wise no one really notices you that are becoming a market. Beside all the negative aspects of Bangladesh I think it is going towards the right direction. may be not up to expectations but somewhat it is. And most importantly we should promote the positive aspects. There are always going to be negative sides of some degree but building insfrustructure is the main key and its hard to get funding for those type projects. over all I am happy. may be from here we can move on and build small manufacturing/assembling companie and so on...

Dear Spider,

I mentioned in my message that I'm not against such developments of infrastructures. However, my objection was to point out that the concentration of development may need to be projected at more ground level works. Most of the development in the communication sectors are aided by foreign countries (with some exceptions). But these countries hardly help us establishing a industry. You need ask why ? Better communication structure means more accessible market whereas local industrial development means loss of potential market share.

The local or individual investments are mostly on the non productive sectors. If I be more specific it's on distribution (e.g shopping malls like bashundhara city) where you'll be selling mostly the foreign products anyway. How does it help our agro-based economy, where near about 80% of people would never have a chance to enter into that mall.

Now if we spend a similar amount of money in Garments industry or in small loan schemes (grameen bank), a software farm it is not hard to how it si contributing in the growth of economy.

Again I'm saying we need mordern shopping malls ... but I tried to point out is we don't need the shopping malls *only* ... we have got so many basic needs to be filled in as well. But if we compare the developments in those fields ... I don't see much concerned people .... I see the destruction of the potential gasfields ... let's not lost hope here .... I believe our generation will have more moral value and courage ... and would set the examples themsalves .... (amen)

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