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RCC to get TK 172.98 crore road, drainage facelift
RAJSHAHI, Nov 4, 2020 (BSS) – Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has been implementing a TK 172.98 crore project for development of all important city roads and drains to infuse dynamism in the road communication and removal of water logging problem.
Under the project, carpeting works of affected roads in the ward level marginal areas and drainage are progressing fast despite ongoing novel corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Corporation officials said population density of the city has gradually been increasing in the metropolis with the influx of huge city-bound people and multiplication of high-rise buildings and keeping this in view the city corporation has taken steps to upgrade the city’s road and drainage system.
City Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton accompanied by others concerned today visited some of the ongoing road and drainage development works being implemented at a cost of TK five crore at outskirt of the city
The works include 1.5-kilometer long 11 small-roads and two-kilometer drains.
Speaking on the occasion Mayor Liton said the city corporation has been implementing six projects at present to attain the cherished goal through developing sustainable citizen-friendly living after installing the scopes of quality physical infrastructural facilities of roads, drains and culverts.
The existing Bilsimla-Kasiadanga road is being elevated to a four-lane with separate 7.8-feet wide bicycle-lane and 10-feet wide footpath on both sides of the road along with a four-feet wide road divider at a cost of TK 26.75 crore.
Asphalt carpeting works on 1,400-meter road and 2,000-meter drain are being implemented there at a cost of around TK 2.88 crore and the works are expected to be completed by October.
A four-lane east-west connecting road from the Rajshahi-Naogaon highway to Mohanpur-Rajshahi-Natore highway is being constructed with the main thrust of building a strong and effective communication system.
Construction of a two-lane 327.5-meter flyover with ram on the railway track is one of the major components of the 6.793-killometer road construction project.
With the completion of the project works by the end of this year the road will create scopes of improving socio- economic condition of the public in general side by side with reducing urban poverty ushering a new era in installing an easy communication system between Rajshahi city and national and regional connectivity.
To make the traffic movement unhindered through expansion of the road crossings, 132.27-kilometer roads, 49.21-kilometer drains and 19.5-kilometer footpaths beside some of the physical infrastructure are also being constructed and developed in different areas.
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