PM directs for forming dedicated fund for maintaining roads, highways
City Desk :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday asked the authorities concerned to form a dedicated fund to properly maintain the roads and highways in the country.
“We’ve built so many roads and highways in the country over the last 15 years.
These are being damaged due to nature.
So, it’s very much necessary to keep those suitable for plying of vehicles through necessary maintenance.
For this, a dedicated fund should be formed for bearing the expenditure of maintenance,” she said, reports BSS.
The Prime Minister said this while chairing a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) held on Tuesday at the NEC Conference Room in the capital’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area.
Planning Minister MA Mannan and State Minister for Planning Dr Shamsul Alam briefed reporters after the meeting while Planning Division Secretary Satyajit Karmakar, Planning Commission members and secretaries concerned were present.
The planning minister said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the authorities concerned to form a dedicated fund for maintaining the countrywide roads and highways.
He said the premier in this regard directed the road transport and highways division to prepare a framework for forming this fund.
Directing the concerned ministries and divisions to take necessary steps for speedily undertaking the foreign funded or aided projects and thus implement those, Sheikh Hasina said, “As a result of this, the countrymen will be benefitted at one hand, the foreign currency reserve will be boosted on the other hand. The ongoing projects should be completed in a speedy manner.”
Answering to a question, the planning minister said that no project was given approval in the day’s meeting centering the next general election rather all approved projects aimed at unleashing overall development of the country.
The premier in the ECNEC meeting had claimed that no project was approved in the ECNEC meeting over the last 15 years without proper scrutiny while there was no haste while giving approval to a project.
