The ECNEC approved installation of a high-voltage power transmission line project at a cost of Tk 2.25 billion in a bid to import power from Jharkhand in India.
Presided over by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) meeting on Tuesday endorsed the project along with seven others at a combine cost of Tk 89.68 billion.
After emerging from the meeting, Planning Minister M A Mannan told journalists that the ECNEC endorsed eight projects, including Installation of Rahanpur-Monakosha power transmission grid project.
The government will import power from Jharkhand with the proposed power grid to augment local power supply.
Under the project, the state-run Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB) will lay a 28-kilometre-long 400-kilovolt (kV) transmission line from Rahanpur to Monakosha border in Chapai Nawabganj.
The ECNEC meeting also approved a Tk 23.88-billion cost project, under which 100-bed full-fledged cancer centres will be set up in every government medical college hospital in the divisional cities.
The planning minister said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) will establish the cancer centres under "Establishment of 100-bed full-fledged cancer centre in government medical college hospital in divisional city project". The project will be completed in September 2022.
The ECNEC also approved three fresh projects: Mymensingh (Raghurampur)-Fulpur-Nakla-Sherpur (R-371) regional highway development project at a cost of Tk 8.55 billion, Upgrading Bindur Mor-Biman Bandar-Naohata road into four-lane on Rajshahi-Naohata-Choumasia Road at Tk 3.27 billion, and Research on prevention and control of zoonosis and trans-boundary animal diseases project at Tk 1.50 billion.
Besides, the ECNEC revised three other projects - Ashrayan-2 Project (3rd revised) at a cost of Tk 48.26 billion, Widening of Upashahor Mor-Sonadighi and Malopara Mor-Sagorpara Mor roads in Rajshahi city (2nd revised) at Tk 1.26 billion, and Strengthening monitoring and evaluation capabilities of IMED (3rd revised) project at Tk 658.5 million.
The planning minister also unveiled the present Annual Development Programme (ADP) implementation status on Tuesday.
According to Mr Mannan, the government agencies spent Tk 96.26 billion or 4.48 per cent of the total ADP outlay in the first two months (July-August) of the current fiscal year (FY), 2019-20.
In the corresponding period of last FY, the agencies spent Tk 63.18 billion or 3.49 per cent of the total ADP, he added.
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