The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved a project for acquiring land to build a sewerage treatment plant in the city’s Uttara area with Taka 13.98 billion.
The approval was given at an ECNEC meeting held at the NEC Conference Room in the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area on Tuesday, with ECNEC Chairperson and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair, reports BSS.
Briefing the reporters after the meeting, Planning Minister MA Mannan said the project aims to ensure a hygienic, environment-friendly and sustainable sanitation system in the city’s Uttara area under Dhaka North City Corporation.
Dhaka WASA under the Local Government Division will implement the project by June 2021.
The main project operations include acquiring 53.75 acres of land and thus providing compensation, conducting necessary survey activities and erecting some 2200 metres of barbwire fence including boundary pillars.
In line with the government’s bid to ensure cent percent sanitation at Dhaka Metropolis as per the recommendations of the Master Plan, necessary sanitation measures would be undertaken at Turag Thana under Dhaka North City Corporation area through implementation of this project.
The minister informed that Tuesday's ECNEC meeting approved a total of 12 projects involving a total amount of Taka 54.94 billion.
Out the total project cost of Taka 54.94 billion, the minister said, the government will provide Taka 54.16 billion while the rest of Taka 780 million will come as project assistance.
The planning minister said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the meeting renewed her previous directives to the concerned authorities, such as building modern rest areas for the drivers and helpers of vehicles along the highways, making arrangement for plantation while making roads in the hilly areas to avoid landslide.
The Prime Minister also directed to keep attention so that no goods-laden truck or vehicle could play on the roads and to make arrangements for preserving water at each building at the Mirersarai Economic Zone.
She also asked authorities concerned to maintain discipline in the roads and highways and to keep attention so that no project is overlapped while the government doctors would have to make private practice at their own hospitals.
