প্রকাশ: 22/05/2022
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said she had to redo
the design of the 6.15-km Padma Bridge to increase its length keeping in mind
the characteristics of the mighty river.
The PM said she resigned the bridge afresh since the
feasibility report found differences in the depth of the mighty Padma River at
different locations in the bridge project site.
“I didn’t let to keep any loopholes. Though it has taken
time, I changed the design,” she said addressing the first meeting of Delta
Governance Council, held at her office here in the city.
She said the flows and bottom-soil of the rivers including
Jamuna and Padma change after every rainy season in the country. Since the
situation here in Bangladesh is not the same as in other countries, it’ll have
to take plans properly keeping this difference in mind.
“I didn't allow making the Padma Bridge smaller. We’ve
constructed the bridge keeping buffer zones with the river. So, the bridge has
become the longest one (in the country),” she said.
Hasina said those who designed the Bangabandhu Bridge (the
bridge over the Jamuna) at its current length had been wrong.
“But I think it was a wrong decision to reduce the bridge
over Jamuna to a 4 kilometres one. Since its design and plan were made earlier,
we had nothing more to do there. I had been able to include only the rail line
in it,” she said.
She said when Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh
Mujibur Rahman had gone on visit to Japan, he discussed with the Japanese
government about the construction of a bridge over the Jamuna River. Japan then
sent a team in 1974 to conduct a feasibility study over it.
She said her government conducted a feasibility study over
Padma River before construction of the Padma Bridge.
Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque, Food Minister
Sadhan Chandra Majumder, Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, Environment,
Forest and Climate Change Minister Md. Shahab Uddin, Prime Minister's Power,
Energy and Mineral Resources Affairs Adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury,
State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, State Minister for Water
Resources Zaheed Farooque, Principal Coordinator (SDG Affairs) Zuena Aziz and
PMO Senior Secretary Md Tofazzel Hossain Miah, among others, were present.
- UNB
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