S\\\'pore wants to support setting up utility services at Purbachal

Singapore proposed to the government Wednesday to provide technical and financial support for establishing utility services at Purbachal satellite town near the capital, officials said.  
As per the proposal, Singapore will complete all the civic amenities there by 2019.
The proposal came at a meeting between Senior State Minister for Home and Foreign Affairs of Singapore Zulkifli Masagos with Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain at the latter's secretariat office on the day.
Mosharraf Hossain said Purbachal will be built with all modern civic amenities.
There will be sewerage treatment plant, residential waste management, and separate power and water supply lines at Purbachal.  
 "The utility services of Purbachal new town will have no linkage with the capital Dhaka. And it will not be dependent on Dhaka for getting such civic facilities," he said.     
"We are reviewing the Singapore government's proposals. We will take decision on it soon," he said.  
Zulkifli Masagos said the development work at Purbachal will be done through mutual consensus of the two governments.  
 "It is our first work with Bangladesh government on the development of housing project management," he said.   
 "We will be happy if we do the development work at Purbachal town. Singapore considers it as a model task," he said.
High Commissioner of Singapore Chan Heng Wing, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Singapore Cooperation Enterprise Kong Wy Mun, Managing Director (MD) of Semcorp Design and Construction Lam Kin Chong and its Vice-President Tan Jun Shyong, Chairman of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) GM Jainal Abedin, chief architect Ahsanul Haque Khan, member (development) Nayeem Ahmed Khan, member (planning) Sheikh Abdul Mannan and chief engineer Emdadul Islam and joint secretary of the ministry of housing and public works Md Kamal Uddin Talukder, among others, were present.