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PM opens World Trade Centre
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday opened the country’s first World Trade Centre in Agrabad area of the port city Chittagong, the tallest building in Chittagong is equipped with all modern facilities.
The Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) constructed the 21-storey World Trade Centre, having three basements with parking lot for 400 vehicles, on 75 kathas of land in Agrabad Commercial Area spending Tk 200 crore.
According to the CCCI leaders, the WTC will have bank branches, exhibition halls, shopping mall, food court, conference rooms, health clubs, banquet halls, billiard rooms, snooker rooms, tennis courts and swimming pools in the building.
From the 10th to 20th floors remained booked for a five-star hotel with 240 rooms, and there will be a helipad on the rooftop. The World Trade Center built in Chittagong has been a member of World Trade Centres Association in New York.
The construction work on the WTC started in 2006 on a land beside the scenic 'Agrabad Deba' in the Agrabad commercial area. Built with state of the art technologies, the WTC will also house, two swimming pools, an international-standard convention centre and one modern IT centre. The CCCI has already joined the New York-based WTC and obtained its membership, according to UNB.
PM Hasina opens Kadamtali Flyover, Bangabandhu Avenue in Chittagong
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has opened the Kadamtali Flyover and Bangabandhu Avenue in Chittagong on Saturday.
She also laid the foundation stone of a 16.5-km elevated expressway and launched three other projects.
The six projects, under the Chittagong Development Authority (CDA), are estimated to cost about Tk 50 billion.
The 1.57-km Kadamtali Flyover has been built at a cost of Tk 582.2 million.
CDA Chairman Abdus Salam told the media in the port city on Thursday that the Chittagong Port would fund the construction of the elevated expressway, estimated to cost Tk 29.57 billion.
CDA would repay the port from toll tax collected for the use of the road, he said.
The three other projects the prime minister launched include the construction of a road—called the Outer Ring Road—from Patenga to Faujdarhat and a road linking Bayzid Bostami and the Dhaka Trunk Road.