Four Helicopters to be bought for Food and Disaster Management Ministry

[Bamboo Castle]

In order to enhance mobility of rescue operations during emergency periods across the country, Food and Disaster Management Ministry will procure four helicopters, costing 750 million taka.

The ministry has already received opinion from Bangladesh Biman for buying the long-desired helicopters from Indonesia.

The funds for purchase of helicopters will be obtained from IDB (Islamic Development Bank) as a soft loan by the concerned ministry, while it was earlier decided that the fund will be mobilized from its sources. It will take another four to five months to obtain the funds from IDB for procurement of these four super Puma helicopters.

Earlier, the Food and Disaster Management Ministry and Biman had decided that the concerned ministry will procure 17 helicopters from abroad for smooth relief opera tions across the country. The ministry had earlier decided not to procure helicopters from abroad using foreign funds

as it has an adverse effect on foreign currency reserves.Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) recently invited tenders for purchasing two helicopters costing 250 million taka to enhance mobility of the elite force.

Source:

Bangladesh to Buy Four Helicopters for 750 Million Taka

 

[Ideas_R_Bulletproof]

useful info... but this was already discussed in other threads actually.... there were some follow-up of this as well.... that was regarding Indonesians dealing with IDB, as BD govt. wanted IDB involvement...