Infrastructure being upgraded for faster economic growth: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government is improving the road network across the country to advance Bangladesh economically.
She said this while inaugurating two bridges on the Teesta and Titas rivers in Rangpur and Brahmanbaria respectively, through video-conference.
“A better communication system will improve peoples' economic condition,” she said, while opening the two bridges from her Gono Bhaban residence, joined by officials and cross sections of people on the other ends at Gangachara of Rangpur and Bancharampur of Brahmanbaria.
Sheikh Hasina said that contemporary history suggests that the people enjoy the benefits of development “when Awami League comes to power”.
Local Government Minister Engineer Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain and senior secretary of the ministry Jafar Ahmed Khan also spoke at the event, conducted by the PM's principal secretary Nozibur Rahman.
State Minister for LGRD Moshiur Rahman Ranga and State Minister for Social Welfare Nuruzzaman Ahmed were present, among others, at Rangpur end while former state minister ABM Tajul Islam and local parliament members were present on the Brahmanbaria end of the video conference.
The 850-metre bridge on the Teesta links Gangachara Upazila with Lalmonirhat and costs Taka 123 crore, while the 771-metre bridge in Brahmanbaria connects Bancharampur with Homna and Muradnagar upazilas, and was built at a cost of Taka 99.86 crore.
Both the bridges were named after Sheikh Hasina in recognition of her constant efforts for construction of the bridges and development of the area.
Sheikh Hasina said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman reconstructed about 300 bridges destroyed by Pakistani army during the Liberation War, and rebuilt 250 dilapidated roads.
“He (Bangabandhu) had taken the war ravaged country to an (advanced) stage in only three and a half years,” she said.
The PM said Bangladesh virtually saw no progress in the subsequent years after Bangabandhu's assassination when only a few people, who grabbed state power illegally, became wealthy along with some beneficiaries. “Sufferings of the people in the grassroots level worsened day by day (during that period),” she said.
Sheikh Hasina hoped that the two bridges would play an important role in the socioeconomic development of the areas.
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