RAJSHAHI, May 04 (BSS): The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has been implementing seven mega road development projects involving around Tk 21.35 billion in Rajshahi division.
RHD sources said implementation of the project including median of the Natore town's main road from Harishpur bypass crossing to Banbelghoria bypass crossing is underway with an estimated cost of around Tk 583.3 million.
"We are developing 74-km regional highways maintaining standard at an estimated cost of around Tk 4.39 billion," said Habibur Rahman, Additional Chief Engineer of RHD.
He said the work on the unfinished 19.5-km Naogaon-Atrai-Natore highway is progressing fast at a cost of Tk 2.01 billion. Four-lane and the rest two-lane elevation work on 21.74-km of the Nolka-Sirajganj-Soidabad regional highway is going on involving Tk 2.64 billion.
The construction under the project of 266.57-meter Ullapara Railway Overpass in Sirajganj and 81.97-km one regional and two district highways in Naogaon involving Tk 4.06 billion were already given approval in ECNEC meeting.
Construction of 14 bridges and culverts on different regional and national highways is progressing with a total cost of around Tk 176.3 million under periodic maintenance programme.
Apart from, repairing and maintenance work on 152.892-km roads was either completed or nearing completion involving around Tk 19.1 million under 13 packages of periodic maintenance programme. Roadside tree plantation activities on the improved roads are progressing successfully.
The work on six important projects was completed at a cost of around Tk 4.56 billion during the previous term of the present government contributing a lot towards improving road communication in the zone.
In addition to construction of a 12.50-km Shaheed Monsur Ali road from Pipulbaria to Dhunat via Sonamukhi at a cost of Tk 679.4 million, reconstructions and widening work on a 51.626-km road from Kansat to Bholahat via Rohanpur was also completed at a cost of Tk 315 million.
The development work on 24.58-km road including a 263-meter bridge of Naogaon-Badalgachhi-Patnitala, 67.59-km Patnitala-Shapahar-Rohanpur and Godagari-Amnura-Nachole-Parbatipur-Adda roads was implemented at a cost of around Tk 2.47 billion.
Besides, district road development project has been executed with an estimated cost of Tk 1.09 million in the zone, he added.
