Plans to be made to elevate Ctg to world standard
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
CHITTAGONG, Feb 19 (BSS): A high profile meeting on development today agreed to formulate interim, mid and long-term plans, besides executing the stalled schemes to elevate the Chittagong Port to the international standard and turn the city into a commercial hub of the country.
Commerce and Education Adviser Dr Hossain Zillur Rahman, who presided over the meeting said at a press briefing the present government had decided to give due importance to the desired development of the port city for the growth of the national economy further.
Secretary of the Housing and Public Works Ministry AHM Rashidul Hai, acting Mayor of the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) M Manjur Alam, Joint Secretary of the LGRD and Cooperatives Ministry Nurunnabai Talukder, Joint Secretary of the Primary and Mass Education Ministry NEM Siddiq, Joint Secretary of the Commerce Ministry Nazrul Islam Khan, Joint Secretary of the Communications Ministry Tajul Islam, Brigadier Hasan Nasir of the joint forces, Member of the Better Business Forum Syed Mahmudul Haq, Chairman of the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) Commodore Muhammad Faruk, Chairman of the Chittagong Develop-ment Authority (CDA) engineer Shah Mohammad Akteruddin, First Vice-President of the BGMEA MA Salam and acting Divisional Commissioner of Chittagong MN Siddiq were present at the meeting.
High officials of various public and sector organisations, academics and development experts also attended the three-hour meeting began at 11 am at the Chittagong Circuit House.
"We have identified many important areas that need to be addressed on an urgent basis, and decided to resume work on a good number of stalled projects and take up some fresh schemes to accelerate development of Chittagong," Dr Zillur told the journalists after the meeting.
The adviser said the decisions and proposals of today's meeting would be placed at another high profile meeting scheduled to be held in the second week of March to take some concrete decisions.
"A series of meeting will be held in future to follow up the progress of implementation of the decisions and take new ones. We are working by keeping constant liaison with the Chief Adviser's office," he added.
He said the meeting gave emphasis on preparing a comprehensive master plan for planned development of the city considering overall aspects of the region.
Like many other important metropolis around the world, Dr Zillur said the meeting also decided to speed up the process of development of new township at Fateyabad at the outskirts of the city.
"A tender will be floated on March 1 on the recently ECNEC approved project to expand the existing Dhaka-Chittagong highway to four lanes," he said adding that another project to construct a "super expressway" between the two cities by 2017 was now under the feasibility study.
The time for the road journey would come down to only two and a half hours on completion of the super expressway, he told the briefing.
Commerce and Education Adviser Dr Hossain Zillur Rahman, who presided over the meeting said at a press briefing the present government had decided to give due importance to the desired development of the port city for the growth of the national economy further.
Secretary of the Housing and Public Works Ministry AHM Rashidul Hai, acting Mayor of the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) M Manjur Alam, Joint Secretary of the LGRD and Cooperatives Ministry Nurunnabai Talukder, Joint Secretary of the Primary and Mass Education Ministry NEM Siddiq, Joint Secretary of the Commerce Ministry Nazrul Islam Khan, Joint Secretary of the Communications Ministry Tajul Islam, Brigadier Hasan Nasir of the joint forces, Member of the Better Business Forum Syed Mahmudul Haq, Chairman of the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) Commodore Muhammad Faruk, Chairman of the Chittagong Develop-ment Authority (CDA) engineer Shah Mohammad Akteruddin, First Vice-President of the BGMEA MA Salam and acting Divisional Commissioner of Chittagong MN Siddiq were present at the meeting.
High officials of various public and sector organisations, academics and development experts also attended the three-hour meeting began at 11 am at the Chittagong Circuit House.
"We have identified many important areas that need to be addressed on an urgent basis, and decided to resume work on a good number of stalled projects and take up some fresh schemes to accelerate development of Chittagong," Dr Zillur told the journalists after the meeting.
The adviser said the decisions and proposals of today's meeting would be placed at another high profile meeting scheduled to be held in the second week of March to take some concrete decisions.
"A series of meeting will be held in future to follow up the progress of implementation of the decisions and take new ones. We are working by keeping constant liaison with the Chief Adviser's office," he added.
He said the meeting gave emphasis on preparing a comprehensive master plan for planned development of the city considering overall aspects of the region.
Like many other important metropolis around the world, Dr Zillur said the meeting also decided to speed up the process of development of new township at Fateyabad at the outskirts of the city.
"A tender will be floated on March 1 on the recently ECNEC approved project to expand the existing Dhaka-Chittagong highway to four lanes," he said adding that another project to construct a "super expressway" between the two cities by 2017 was now under the feasibility study.
The time for the road journey would come down to only two and a half hours on completion of the super expressway, he told the briefing.