RCC adopts Tk 4b uplift projects

RAJSHAHI, Apr 20 (BSS): Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has adopted a Tk 4 billion uplift programme and implementation of projects under the programme is progressing fast for making those visible by next one and a half years. RCC Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton stated this while addressing the prize- giving ceremony of sports competition organised by Hatemkha Kodomtala Tarun Sangha marking the celebration of Independence and National Day here Sunday night. "We have undertaken a Tk 790 million project for uplifting the 12 disadvantaged wards of the metropolis," he noted. He emphatically said the pipeline-based gas supply to Rajshahi will start by next July. Besides, he said construction of a 50-megawatt power plant is progressing fast at Katakhali and construction of another 50-megawatt plant is on the process at the same place. Power generation from one of the plants is expected by next month, thereby, the existing power crises would be removed, he added. For removing the unemployment problem, he mentioned that a private garments factory is under construction at Sapura and more factories will be established in different areas in phases. Apart from this, Liton said initiative has been taken to establish IT Village here for creating employment opportunities abroad.