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PM opens bridge over Rupsha

UNB, Khulna
Opening another major bridge in the country's highway network, Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday said building the Khanjahan Ali Bridge is yet another example of politics of development as the BNP-led coalition believes in work, not in words.
She stressed the need for strengthening the politics of development to increase opportunities for the people through implementing development works like this, one after another, shunning sensationalism in politics.
With the opening of the 1.36-km-long bridge, constructed over the river Rupsha at a cost of Tk 726.15 crore with financial assistance of Japanese government, operations in the county's second largest seaport at Mongla are likely to get a boost alongside the development of communications in the region.
"We advanced one step more on the highway of road communications and national development through the opening of the bridge today," the prime minister told the inaugural function.
Direct communications between northwestern and south and southwestern regions of the country have now been established, she noted.
"I inaugurated the construction work of Kanchon Bridge on the river Shitalakhya in less than a month of assuming power. Later, we have constructed numerous roads, highways, bridges and culverts in the last three and a half years," Khaleda told her audience.
She mentioned the construction of 2,400-km of roads and about 8,000 metres of large bridges at a cost of about Tk 8,000 crore through Roads and Highways Department during the time. Construction work of more 700-km of roads and 7,100 metres of bridgesis progressing fast.
About 4,100 km of roads have been repaired and maintained only under the communications ministry, she said.
The prime minister said upgrading to four-lane one the Dhaka-Chittagong highway from Dhaka to Daudkandi is nearing completion and a plan has been taken to broaden the rest of the road to Chittagong the same way.
"We have planned to set up road communications between Bangladesh and Mynanmar, developing thousands of kilometres of road," she told the function.
She urged all concerned to take all-out initiative to ensure highway safety by containing accidents.
The prime minister stressed the need for more awareness and caution than before for a safe road journey.
"We have established National Road Safety Council and Accident Research Centre to combat accidents. We have formulated different policies relating to road transport and updated the transport ordinance," she mentioned.
She noted with satisfaction that government of Japan and Japan Bank for International Cooperation are development partners of Bangladesh for long. She thanked the development partners for financing this project.