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DND project to be completed by 2021: Farooque
NARAYANGANJ, Mar 8, 2020 (BSS) – State Minister for Water Resources Zaheed
Farooque today said the Dhaka-Narayanganj-Dhaka (DND) Project is expected to
be completed by 2021, mentioning that around 20 lakh people will be benefited
from the project.
“The prime minister and the ECNEC members are well-informed about the
importance of the DND project…the tenure of the project has increased one
year. And the project’s works will be completed by 2021,” he told a function
at Shiddhirganj, Narayanganj.
The function was arranged to inaugurate the pump installation works of the
DND Drainage Management Development Project.
Speaking as the chief quest, Farooque said the DND project is being
implemented so that 20 lakh people dwelling in the project area can live in a
safe environment.
“We have been dreaming that Bangladesh will be a middle-income country by
2021 and a developed one by 2041. And that’s why the project will be
implemented,” he said.
The state minister said the DND project was first implemented from 1962 to
1968 and illegal structures were set up later in the project area due to
urbanisation.
“As illegal structures were set up by grabbing arable land and DND area,
water-logging situation is created there every year,” he said.
Farooque said the works of a new Taka 558-crore project began in 2017, but
now it is estimated that about Taka 1,300 crore will be required to complete
the project as there are illegal structures, mosques, madrasahs and
electricity and water supply lines in the project area.
Once the project is implemented, he said, about 20 lakh will get relief
from water-logging.
Narayanganj-4 MP Shamim Osman, Water Resources Secretary Kabir Bin Anwar
and Engineer in Chief of Bangladesh Army Major General Ibne Fazal
Shayekhuzzaman, among others, were present.
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