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Parjatan Corpn to develop first-ever cable car

Sayeda Akter
Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation (BPC) is to develop the country's first-ever cable car, connecting two slopes at Mirinza in Banderban district, by the year-end.
Kazi Wahidul Alam, tourism analyst and editor of travel magazine Bangladesh Monitor, hoped that the number of tourists in the region will be doubled on the launch of the.cable car.
A cable car is any variety of transportation systems relying on cables to pull vehicles along or lower at a steady rate.
The popular variety of cable car in South Asian countries is a ropeway conveyor that is a subtype of gondola lift, from which containers for goods rather than passenger cars are suspended in the air.
The concept of cable car comes at a time when Cox's Bazar is in a hard contest for the first place in the list of the seven natural wonders of the world with the world's longest sea beach remaining at the top of the nomination in recent weeks.
Shafique Alam Mehdi, chairman of BPC, said the cable car would attract the domestic tourists as well as the foreign tourists, helping the sector to grow.
"It will be a wonderful thing for the domestic tourists, as many of them have never been
on a cable car and the foreign tourists would be able to have fun in the area as well," he said.
He said the advertisement concerning the building of the cable car has already appeared in national dailies.
“It is primarily a project of the Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs and the cost of the project is approximately Tk 5 crore," said the BPC chief.
The cable car will run over more than one kilometre connecting two hills at Mirinza under Lama upazila in Banderban.
The cable car will be built as part of a BPC project titled
Mirinza Tourist Complex Project, under which an internal road between the two hills and a restaurant in Banderban have already been developed.
Nazrul Islam, head of the project and project engineer of Mirinza Tourist Complex, said building of the cable car would take six to eight months for completion.
He said BPC has already established a power substation at Mirinza as part of the infrastructure for launching the cable car.
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