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ECNEC approves 1st revision of Multipurpose Disaster Shelter Center Project with Taka 3,171cr
DHAKA, Oct 22, 2019 (BSS) – The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) today approved the 1st revision of the Multipurpose Disaster Shelter Center Project with an estimated cost of Taka 3,170.76 crore mainly to protect the people of the coastal areas from various natural disasters.
The approval came from a meeting of the ECNEC held at the NEC Conference Room in the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area with ECNEC Chairperson and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
Briefing the reporters after the meeting, Planning Minister MA Mannan said that a total of 5 projects were approved today involving an overall estimated cost of Taka 4,636.80 crore. “Of the total project cost, Taka 1,476.04 crore will come from the state exchequer while the rest of Taka 3,160.76 crore from project assistance.”
The Planning Minister said some 556 cyclone shelters are being built under the project which would be mainly used for conducting academic activities of primary education and other academic purposes.
Mannan said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the meeting asked the authorities concerned to ensure necessary access roads, reservoirs for preserving rain water, toilets and store rooms in those cyclone centers to ensure maximum facilities for the beneficiaries.
Under the project, there will also be vertical and horizontal expansion of some 450 cyclone shelters side by side there will be construction of some 182 kilometer access roads and construction of 656 meters of bridges and culverts.
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