Padma Bridge. This bridge will be built over the Padma river. It will be the longest Bridge in South Asia even beating Jamuna Bridge which is also in Bangladesh. The Padma Bridge will be the 7th longest bridge in the world.


Padma Bridge


Currently the longest Jamuna bridge in Bangladesh and South Asia and 11 longest in the world. Another engineering marvel in Bangladesh.

on the bdridge

Paksey bridge Toll Plaza

Zia Uddan

Teesta Dam





Bhairab railway Bridge

Jamuna: Sky View

proud of my country u know :D

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that padma bridge looks really good............ feel good to see my country is devloping........ :)

Insfrustructure is the main key for development. After 30 yrs of democracy the progress is still not up expectation. Poor level of politics and uneducated politicians are the main obstacle!

good pictures for sure...

I totally agree with spider

Nice to see my country coming up!

But blind infrastructure development in the name of progress can have long-term adverse consequences. Google Jamuna Bridge and you will find tens of studies criticizing how this project was implemented. Some of the main points of contentions include:

1. It was built at the cost of Tk. 250 Billion to connect the North-west region (Rajshahi Division) to the rest of the country at a time when Rajshahi suffers from an unemployment rate of almost 48%. Almost any cost-benfit analysis will show you that this money could have been better spent on long-term sustainable development that would make tangible difference in people's lives.
2. There was almost no real environmental impact assessment done. The result being documented excessive silt accumulation that harms navigation in the river.
3. 105,000 people were "re-trenched" (moved and their land taken by the government) without being given just compensation. Many ended up living in "bostis" along the on ramps of the bridge.
4. This project was bally-hooed by the Japanese ODA (Overseas Development Agency) as a means of providing japanese firms contracts. If you look at the list of consultants and others firms involved in the project, there is only one Bangladeshi firm. The rest are Japanese, Chinese, and South Koreans.
5. Bangladesh got burdened with Tk. 250 Billion loan that it will have to pay back, whereas it cannot find money to keep the SOEs (state owned enterprises), which supposedly lose money, running, even though in 35 years the SOEs lost one-tenth of what this white elephant cost.


I am not saying we should not be proud of our achievements, but once you think about it, how does this benefit the 135 million people in Bangladesh who are considered to be "Hard-core poor" (this is a term that the World Bank uses). Most of these projects are invented by IFIs (international financial institutions such as WB, IMF, ADB, DfID, ODA, etc.) without any real input from true civil society in the native country. (And please don't say Grameen, Proshika, etc. are the civil society) Look at countries like Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, and many sub-saharan African states and how they feel about similar projects and you will figure out if this is such a great thing.

Brother... its quite impossible to get a project funded in countries like BD. If you are realistic and look at global politics you'll understand hardly any people are interested in investing unless you give them some incentives. but slowly its getting better. Any loan that gets approved for BD only 25% actually reaches the end of the project which is very reasonable considering various circumstances a thirld world countries faces.