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Metro rail project gets ECNEC nod | Bangladesh | bdnews24.com
Dhaka, Dec 18 (bdnews24.com)The government on Tuesday approved the overland metro rail service project - Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Line-6 - involving Tk 219.85 billion to ease the city's cluttered traffic.
The approval was given at the meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) with the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
She is the ECNEC's Chairperson.
Briefing reporters after the meeting, Member of the Planning Commission Abdul Mannan Hawlader said that the much-talked-about Dhaka Metro project would be implemented with the financial assistance from the Japanese government.
Of the total cost, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will provide Tk 165.95 billion while the Bangladesh Government will take care of the remaining funds.
The Japanese had funded the Kolkata Metro Rail project in the 1990s.
The 20-kilometer Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Line-6 will begin from Uttara Third Phase and pass through Pallabi, the west side of Rokeya Square and Farmgate, Hotel Sonargaon, Ruposhi Bangla, TSC of Dhaka University, Doel Intersection, Topkhana Road and Bangladesh Bank.
Later, the route will be extended up to Saidabad from Bangladesh Bank point through Atish Dipankar Road.
Hawlader said that the present design of the metro rail would not cause affect the parliament complex when the project is implemented.
"The Roads and Highways Division has its own land beside the Parliament Complex. The metro rail service will pass through its area. But this will not affect the main design of the Parliament that was done by Louis Kahn," he said.
Dhaka, Dec 18 (bdnews24.com)The government on Tuesday approved the overland metro rail service project - Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Line-6 - involving Tk 219.85 billion to ease the city's cluttered traffic.
The approval was given at the meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) with the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
She is the ECNEC's Chairperson.
Briefing reporters after the meeting, Member of the Planning Commission Abdul Mannan Hawlader said that the much-talked-about Dhaka Metro project would be implemented with the financial assistance from the Japanese government.
Of the total cost, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will provide Tk 165.95 billion while the Bangladesh Government will take care of the remaining funds.
The Japanese had funded the Kolkata Metro Rail project in the 1990s.
The 20-kilometer Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Line-6 will begin from Uttara Third Phase and pass through Pallabi, the west side of Rokeya Square and Farmgate, Hotel Sonargaon, Ruposhi Bangla, TSC of Dhaka University, Doel Intersection, Topkhana Road and Bangladesh Bank.
Later, the route will be extended up to Saidabad from Bangladesh Bank point through Atish Dipankar Road.
Hawlader said that the present design of the metro rail would not cause affect the parliament complex when the project is implemented.
"The Roads and Highways Division has its own land beside the Parliament Complex. The metro rail service will pass through its area. But this will not affect the main design of the Parliament that was done by Louis Kahn," he said.
