DHAKA, Sept 25, 2019 (BSS) – Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today said the distribution of e-passport will start in December this year.
“Germany based contractor has moved far ahead in this regard. Our home minister assured the meeting that all necessary works for distributing e-passport will be completed within December this year,” he told journalists after the meetings of Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) and Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) at the Cabinet Division in the city.
The minister hoped that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will launch the e-passport in December.
Kamal informed that the CCEA meeting has approved the proposal for procuring 2 million machine readable passport (MRP) booklets and 2 million lamination foils.
“This is the last edition of MRP. The procurement will be under Direct Procurement Method (DPM) at a cost of Taka 41 crore,” he added.
He said the ‘Construction of Outer Ring Road (Southern Part) through PPP’ project also got approval at the CCEA meeting for constructing 48 kilometer highway.
The government has taken the project as part of its plan to construct outer ring road around the Dhaka city, he added.
The finance minister also informed that five proposals got approval in the CCGP meeting.
The proposals are: the Consultancy Services for Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) under “Greater Dhaka Sustainable Urban Transport Project (BRT Gazipur-Airport)” project, Expansion of Transmission Network (Dhaka, Mymensingh, Chattogram and Sylhet) for ensuring 100 percent electrification at rural area, Increasing the Capacity of Palli Bidyut Transmission System (Amendment), the amendment agreement price for constructing the Dayaganj Cleaners Colony, and Dholpur Cleaners Colony under the housing project for cleaners of the Dhaka City Corporation area.