SANGSAD BHABAN, Sept 9, 2019 (BSS) – The government has a plan to upgrade
all the regional and district highways into four lanes in phase.
“Government’s first priority is to upgrade the national highways into four
lanes… then regional and district highways will be upgraded into four lanes
in phases,” said Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader while
responding to a starred mark question placed by treasury bench lawmaker AKM
Shahjahan Kamal of Lakhipur-3 in the Jatiya Sangsad here today.
A total of 3,906.03 kilometers national highways, 4,766.91 kilometers
regional and 13,423.36 kilometers district highways are under the Road and
Highway Department (RHD) in sixty-four districts, said the minister in the
House.
Dhaka-Chattagram and Dhaka-Mymensingh national highways have already been
upgraded into four lanes, he said, adding that up-gradation work of the
Dhaka-Tangail national highway into four lanes is now at the finishing stage.
The work to upgrade the Dhaka-Sylhet national highway will begin soon at
the field level, the minister explained in the JS.