Bangladesh Railway on Wednesday signed an agreement with a Chinese company for making double-line the Tongi-Bhairab Bazar stretch of Dhaka-Chittagong railway line.
The 64-kilometre double-line would be constructed at a cost of around Tk 1,405 crore, railway sources said.
Bangladesh Railway director general and China Railway Group Limited Web Dong deputy managing director inked the agreement at a function at Rail Bhaban for their respective sides.
Communications minister Syed Abul Hossain and Chinese ambassador in Dhaka Zhang Xianyi were present.
Speaking on the occasion, the communications minister said the government had undertaken a project to turn 125-kilometre corridor of 320-kilometre Dhaka-Chittagong rail line into a double-line with the existing 124-kilometre double-line.
He said the government had approved a project for procurement of commuter trains with its own resources and these trains would ply Dhaka, Narayanganj, Joydevpur, Tongi, Mymensingh and Sirajganj routes.
The train services would help reducing traffic congestion improving connectivity between Dhaka and surrounding districts, the minister said, adding that the programmes undertaken by the government for development of railway sector would be visible to people by 2012.
Railway division secretary M Ebadat Ali, project director Sagar Krishna Chakraborty, representative of the ADB and senior officials of the railway were present.
Asian Development Bank would provide Tk 1,331 crore of the projects and the rest of the amount would be given by the government.
Source : New Age
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