Ctg-Cox’s Bazar rail line to open by Sept this year
The under-construction rail line between Chattogram and Cox's Bazar will be opened by September this year, said Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan today.
Works are expected to be completed by August and the line will be inaugurated in September, he told reporters while visiting the project in Cox's Bazar.
The physical works of the project started in March 2018, around eight years after approval.
In 2010, the government decided to lay a 128-kilometre metre gauge rail track to link Chattogram with Cox's Bazar at a cost of Tk 1,852.35 crore.
But it changed the decision in 2014 and decided to go for a dual gauge track for better connectivity, raising the cost tenfolds to Tk 18,034.47 crore.
The authorities then made more changes as they shelved plans of the first phase to construct the track up to Gundum, near the Myanmar border, from Ramu, due to fund shortages.
After the first revision of the project in April, 2016, the deadline was set in June 2022, and, after a lot of hurdles, the construction work for the track from Dohazari of Chattogram to Ramu started in March 2018.
This project is jointly funded by the government and Asian Development Bank.
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