Govt approves Payra dredging, Dhaka water supply projects

The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) yesterday approved four proposals involving Tk 428.98 crore while the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) one.

Of the CCGP approved amount, Tk 176.14 crore will come from the government exchequer while the remaining Tk 252.84 crore from Asian Development Bank as loan.

The approvals came at a CCGP meeting chaired by Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal at the cabinet division.

Briefing reporters, Abu Saleh Mostafa Kamal, additional secretary to the cabinet, said two of the CCGP proposals were from Local Government Division while each from the Ministry of Water Resources, and Road Transport and Highways Division.

The CCEA one was a direct procurement proposal for emergency protective dredging of Rabnabad Channel of the Payra port (inner and outdoor channel).

The project will be implemented by Belgium-based Jan De Nul.

Of the CCGP approvals, one was for the appointment of Ludwig Pfeiffer Hoch- und Tiefbau GmbH & Co KG as the lowest bidder for the implementation of a "Dhaka Water Supply Network Improvement" project involving Tk 164.9 crore.

The company will renovate, maintain and operate for one year the 163-kilometre long water pipeline.

The second one was for the appointment of a joint venture of Development Design Consultants, GITEC-IGIP GmbH, DevCon and Resource Planning and Management Consultants as project implementation support consultant.

A total of Tk 88.75 crore will be spent for the project.

The third was for the appointment of a joint venture to complete civil work centring the recovery of the Buriganga river (New Dhaleshwari-Bangshai-Turag-Buriganga river system) involving Tk 50.62 crore.

The last one was for the appointment of a joint venture of Ataur Rahman Khan and Mahabub Brothers for the completion of civil work on developing the Manihar to Murali part of Palbari-Daratana-Manihar-Murali national highway to four lanes at a cost of Tk 125.52 crore.