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Tk 433cr projects approved

Bangladesh-China Friendship Exhibition Centre to be set up

UNB, Dhaka
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) yesterday approved five development projects involving Tk 433 crore, including one for construction of
Bangladesh-China Friendship Exhibition Centre.
Of the total cost, Tk 223 crore will come from government exchequer while Tk 210 crore as project aid.
With Prime Minister and Ecnec Chairperson Sheikh Hasina in the chair, the Ecnec at a meeting at the NEC conference room in the city approved the development schemes.
The exhibition centre for the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) under the commerce ministry will be constructed qn the nprthwestern corner pt the Olci Airport on 39 acres of;
land at a cost of Tk 275 crore, includingTk 210 crore coming as grants from China.
The project has been approved with an amendment as the PM directed including underground parking at the centre. The project is expected to be completed by 2012.
Planning Division Secretary Mohammad Habibullah Majumder revealed the decisions to the reporters after the meeting.
He said government fund for the project which is nowTk 65 crore might increase if China declined to give the increased cost for the construction of underground parking.
“In that case, the government will bear that additional cost,” he added.
He said the revised Annual Development Programme QVDP) will be f^n^hsed by mid; ’
January (January 15-20).
The other approved schemes are: Conservation project for Kalna Ferry Ghat to save it from erosion by the river Madhumati under Kashiani upazila of Gopalganj and protection of Madaripur town and the adjacent area from the erosion of the ArialJchan River under the Water Development Board at a cost of Tk 37 crore, National Sanitation Project (2nd phase) under the Department of Public Health and Engineering (DPHE) under the Local Government Division involving Tk 44 crore, construction of 50 highway outposts for police under the home ministry involvingTk 49 crore, construction of office buildings for the Narcotics Control Department in the divisional cities of Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Barisal and Sylbet under the hqipe
ministry at a cost of Tk 28 crore. Khulna was not included in the project as a divisional office is already there.
Finance Minister Abul Mal Abdul Muhith, Planning Minister Air Vice-Marshal (Retd) AK Khandaker Bir Uttam, Agriculture Minister Maria Chowdhury, LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam, Labour and Employment Minister Engineer Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Water Resources Minister Ramesh Chandra Sen, Commerce Minister Lt Col (Retd) Faruk Khan, Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan, advisers to Prime Minister Dr Moshiur Rahman, Dr Modasser Ali, Dr Alauddin Ahmed and Dr Toufiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury and State Minister for Home Advocate Shamsul Haque Tuku attended the meeting.