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Tk6,200cr metro plan okayed

Rejaul Karim Byron
The advisory committee on economic affairs yesterday approved a proposal for construction of a subway in Dhaka by a private sector firm with an estimated cost ofTk 6,200 crore.
The underground rail system will be constructed on Build-Operate-TYansfer (BOT) basis under the supervision of Bangladesh Railway, meeting sources said.
'We have approved the proposal to include in the PICOM (Private Infrastructure Committee) list and now the remaining processes will be done to implement the project," Finance Adviser Mirza Azizul Islam, who chaired the meeting, said.
The government will now float fresh international tender inviting proposals and at the same time the Planning Commission will prepare a detailed study on the project, sources said.
Once built, the subway will save Tk 5,319 crore a year through saving human working hours and stopping wastage of imported fuel due to traffic congestions, says the proposal made by the Board of Investment (Bol).
While the experts say that it requires for any mega city to have roads covering at least 25-30 percent of its area for easy traffic movement, the
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roads of Dhaka cover only 5-6 percent.
According to the Bol proposal, die 52-kilometre subway would have six routes with 50 stations connecting almost 80 percent of the city area. The underground rail system will have the capacity to transport on average 40 lakh passengers a month.
The first route would start from Gabtoli and end at Sayedabad via Mohakhali and it would be connected with the second route, Uttara to Mohakhali, at the Mohakhali bus terminal.
The third route, Pallabi to IDB Bhaban, will be connected with the first route as well
The fourth route will be from Shyamoli to Elephant Road, which will cover Shyamoli. Adabor, M6h a m m adpuf,1 C/hi'nfri'6'A d i’1 Jigatola. Rayerbazar and Hazaribagh areas. It will be connected with the first route at Shyamoli and Elephant Road forming the first inner loop.
Starting from Sayedabad, the fifth route will end atTejgaon Satrasta via Malibagh, Moghbazar and Kamalapur Rail Station. It will also be connected with the first route and it will form the second loop almost as long as the first loop in the network.
Completing the entire network, the sixth route from Sayedabad to Gulistan will connect all the entry points of the mega city.
The initiative to construct the subway in Dhaka was taken during the BNP-Jamaat government and a private company was primarily selected for the project
After assuming power, the present caretaker government halted the work of the project and in February last year, it said that the next political government would complete the work.
Later in November that year, the government, however, shifted from its decision and made a fresh move about the project considering it as a priority work to ease traffic congestion of the capital.