Sheikh Hasina opens 18 bridges from Ganobhaban
Dhaka: A total of 18 newly constructed bridges across the country have formally been opened to traffic on Thursday morning.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the bridges from Ganobhaban through videoconferencing.
Earlier, in the morning Sheikh Hasina inaugurated Sheikh Kamal and Sheikh Jamal bridges on Patuakhali-Kuakata Road. The other 16 bridges are in Sylhet division.
The prime minister also inaugurate power supply project at Kotalipara in Gopalganj.
Through the project, around 6,000 families of 90 villages in Kotalipara upazila will come under power supply.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina unveiled 51 development projects across the country including 108 megawatt power plant at Patia in Chittagong, and 225megawatt power plants in Kodda, Gazipur, and Ashuganj.
The 500-metre long Sheikh Jamal Bridge was constructed at a cost of Tk 43.5 crore and the 900-metre Sheikh Kamal Bridge involving Tk 65 crore.
The construction work of Sheikh Kamal Bridge over the River Andharmanik in Kalapara was completed two months ago, while the building of Sheikh Kamal Bridge over the River Sonatala was ended a month earlier.
On 25 February 2012, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina laid the foundation stones of the two bridges and Shaheed Sheikh Russel Bridge across three rivers on 72-km-long Patuakhali-Kuakata Road.
On 20 August 2015, Sheikh Hasina formally opened the 408.36-metre-long and 10.25-metre-wide Shaheed Sheikh Russel Bridge on the Shibbaria River at Mohipur point on Patuakhali-Kuakata Road.
The three bridges are named after Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s three sons, also brothers of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.