Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday inaugurated the lengthy-awaited Padma bridge, the country’s longest and absolutely constructed with home funding. The 6.15-km-lengthy road-rail four-lane bridge is constructed over the Padma river connecting southwestern Bangladesh with the capital and different parts. The multipurpose road-rail bridge, that is absolutely funded with the aid of using the Bangladesh government, has been built at a value of USD 3.6 billion.
The inauguration of the Padma bridge incorporates plenty of importance because the shape changed into constructed absolutely with home financing, defying speculations with the aid of using a few monetary analysts if Bangladesh may want to mobilise the fund relying on home resources. Hasina expressed deep gratitude to the human beings worried with the development of the Padma bridge.
“I don’t have any lawsuits in opposition to anyone, however I reckon people who hostile the Padma Bridge production plan and known as it a ‘pipe dream’, lack self-confidence. I desire this bridge will improve their confidence,” the top minister said.
“This bridge isn’t always simply bricks, cement, iron, and concrete? This bridge is our pride, a image of our capacity, our power and our dignity. This bridge belongs to the human beings of Bangladesh,” she said.
The Padma Bridge task witnessed numerous engineering wonders in addition to technological challenges. It emerged because the surprise shape for Bangladesh and noticed the usage of cutting-edge equipment and know-how.
The task changed into to begin with anticipated to be funded with the aid of using a consortium led with the aid of using the World Bank. In 2012, it cancelled the proposed credit score announcing it had “credible evidence” of high-stage corruption amongst Bangladeshi officials.
Bangladesh has for the duration of denied those allegations and desired now no longer to method the worldwide international lender for funding.
