Development Chittagong | Mega Projects in Bangladesh

The port city of Chittagong / Chattogram is on its way to becoming the true Commercial Capital of Bangladesh. The overall picture of the port city is changing with some development mega projects in Chittagong worth thousands of crores of BD Taka. If these projects are launched in full swing, there will be a radical change in the socio-economic condition of Chittagong Division and the whole Country. Millions of people will be employed here. At the same time, Chittagong will go a long way in becoming a commercial capital of the country through these projects. That is why the present government has undertaken some mega projects in Chittagong.

The first ever Karnaphuli Tunnel is being constructed at the bottom of Karnafuli river to turn Chittagong city into 'One City two Town' in the style of Shanghai, China. The tunnel will connect Chittagong main city and Anwara upazila with the same thread. The 3.4 km tunnel construction project was jointly funded by the Government of Bangladesh and Chinese Exim Bank and was approved in November 2015. The cost of the project has been estimated at BDT 10,374.42 crore. As per expected schedule, the tunnel will be open to traffic by December 2022. When it is fully operational, about 63 lacs vehicles will run every year using this gateway. This will bring revolutionary changes in the industry and tourism sector of Bangladesh.

The country's largest economic zone 'Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Industrial City' has been built on the once barren land of Mirsarai upazila. Domestic and Foreign investors are bringing in billions of dollars to invest in this industrial zone, which is built on about 31,000 acres of land which will expended in the future. If the project is fully implemented, around 2 to 2.5 millions of people will be employed.

To facilitate communication in the tourist city Cox's Bazar, a railway line is being constructed to establish direct Chittagong - Cox's Bazar railway line. The cost of the project has been estimated at BDT 18,034.47 crore which is another mega project in Chittagong zone with the joint funding of the Government of Bangladesh and ADB (Asian Development Bank). The government has plans to run trains on this route next year (2022). If the Chittagong-Cox's Bazar railway lines get completed, it will be one of the landmark projects for the road communication system of the country. This will make the journey from Dhaka to Chittagong to Cox's Bazar very easy.

The Bay Terminal is being built on the land raised from the heart of the sea from Anandabazar in Chittagong's Halishahar to South Kattali Rasmanighat. If the BDT 2,500 crore Bay Terminal project get fully operational, the handling capacity of Chittagong port will increase five times more than now. Mother Vessel will be able to come directly and go at the jetty day and night which will save time and cost of transporting the goods.

The Patenga Container Terminal (PCT) is being constructed at a cost of BDT 1,800 crore. The implementing agency is claiming that PCT will play a big role in increasing the capacity of Chattogram port. With the introduction of Patenga Container Terminal under construction on 32 acres of land, more than 4,00,000 TEU containers can be handled annually. It will be the country's first terminal made of rust-resistant and salinity-tolerant iron.

Construction of 16.5 km long Elevated Expressway from Lalkhan Bazar to Patenga is underway. Construction work of thin mega project in Chittagong worth around BDT 3,500 crore is going on full swing. The launch of the expressway will radically change the Chattogram City's internal communication system.

Some other mega projects in Chittagong zone including “Anwara Economic Zone” worth BDT 16,000 crore, “Chittagong City Outer Ring Road” project worth Tk 2,500 crore, “DT-Bayezid Link Road” worth BDT 320 crore, River Bank Conservation worth BDT 280 crore, Road and Drainage system reform project worth BDTk 716 crore and Karnafuli Water Supply Project-2 worth BDT 4,500 crore are important.

Chittagong’s fine natural harbour was known to the Mediterranean world from the early Common Era and to Arab sailors by the 10th century. The port of CTG has became the gateway of Bangladesh for foreign trade. Present-day Chittagong was developed according to a series of master plans which will bring best economic benefit for the whole country.

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Patenga Container Terminal PCT will be Completed Soon

Patenga Container Terminal (PCT) is constructing as part of increasing the capacity of the country's main seaport located in Chattogram. Construction work of this multipurpose project with flyover, container and dolphin jetty, backup yard is ongoing full swing.

Piling work to build this terminal is giving the highest priority. China has already done test piling by the pole driving ship brought from China. Thousand numbers of piles having 9 meter diameter and of 30-38 meters long is building in Malaysia. These piles are bringing from Malaysia in 6 trips. Already two hundred piles shipments have been done. Within July, the rest piles will reach at the project site.

Overall 18 percent of the whole project work has been completed. 29 percent of the piling work was completed. 85 percent of Ground Improvement work and 60 percent of the 420 meter long flyover construction work have been done.

According to the plan, comprehensive work is going on every day. Beside construction work of the jetties, road transfers, border wall work etc the movement of Red Crescent, Marine Fisheries, Custom F Division is ongoing.

According to the sources, the PCT is being built to handle 445,000 TEU's Container annually. Total numbers of 7 different contractors under the Bangladesh Army are working on this site. The army has already been paid an advance of BD Taka 650 crore for the project of total Taka 1,868 crore 28 lac.

In the Patenga Container Terminal which will have 600 meter long jetty, three container vessel ships of 190 meters long and 10.5 meter draught (bottom of the vessel) will be able to arrive. In the 220 meter long dolphin jetty one oil lavender vessel will be able to arrive. Under this project, the backup yard area will be of total 16 acres with 4,500 TEU's container capacity.

In the PCT:

• There will be 1,12,000 square meter of RCC pavement (internal yard and road)
• 2,128 square meter Container freight station (CFS) shade
• 6 meter height 1,750 meters custom bonded wall
• 5,580 square feet port office building
• 1,200 Square meter mechanical and repair factory
• 420 meter long flyover for airport traffic
• Four lanes road of 0.75 kilometer and six lanes road of 1 kilometer

Equipment's in PCT:

• There will be 4 gantry cranes (QGC)
• 8 rubber tiered gantry (RTG)
• 4 straddle carrier
• 4 Rich stackers
• 1 rail mounted gantry crane (RMG)
• 4 low-mast fork lift
• 2 fire trucks and 1 fire car
• There will be three security patrol cars, one ambulance, two tugboats of 50 tons, two pilot boats and two fast-speed boats

The foundation work of the PTC was laid on 8 September, 2017 and hope the construction work will be completed by this year within December.

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Exporting Bangladeshi Goods to India is Increasing

Exporting Bangladeshi products to Indian market is increasing. Exporters of Bangladesh exported goods of more than US$ 100 Crore to India in the first 10 months (July-April) of the current fiscal year 2018-19. Narendra Modi's India has reached ninth place among the top 10 exporters of Bangladeshi products.

According to the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB), Bangladesh has exported products of 107 Crore US dollars in the first 10 months of the current financial year, which is 53 percent more than the previous year's assessment period. Before the end of the current fiscal year, the export earnings were 22.87 percent more than the previous financial year.

The EPB data review shows that in the last fiscal year exports to India started to grow. In the last fiscal year, total export of goods worth US$ 87.33 Crore to India. The export growth was more than 29 percent. Currently India has the ninth position in the country's exports from Bangladesh after US, Germany, United Kingdom, Spain, France, Italy, Japan and Canada.

Of course not only exports, import from India is also increasing. In the last financial year, FY 2017-18, the imports from India amounted to US$ 862 Crore, which is 40 percent more than the previous year. As a result, Bangladesh's trade deficit with India stands at $ 775 Crore, which is 42 percent more than the previous year.

An analysis of EPB data shows that export of ready-made garments, soybean oil and processed food helped to export more than one billion dollars in India. Export of garments is jumping on the last fiscal year. Export of soybean oil increased by $ 9 Crore in previous 10 months. Export of plastic products, steel and leather products is also increasing. However, the export of jute and jute yarn, fish etc are down.

From 2011, India gave duty-free access to all products except weapons and drugs from Bangladesh. Although Bangladesh could not utilize it as much, Indian company Lilliput did not paid payments to several garments factories of Bangladesh in 2011. For that, many years clothing exports fell down. But in the last few years, in many cities in India, famous International clothing brand has open many retail outlets that causing increase of garments products export.

Bangladeshi entrepreneurs exported RMG products of $ 12.97 Crore in the fiscal year 2016-17. Export of clothing for the next fiscal year of that increased by 115 percent to $ 27.86 Crore. During the first 9 months (July-March) of the current fiscal year, exports of garments cloth worth $ 40.11 Crore. Although the fiscal year does not end, the export is 43.96 percent. Oven garments are exported more than net garments in the Indian market.

Bangladesh's export earnings from this country exceeded US$ 1 billion for the first time and India is now the ninth best country to export Bangladeshi products. BGMEA president Rubana Haque said, "We export garments in India for a long time. But due to some non-tariff barriers, garment export was not rising at such rate. But the export of garments for two fiscal years has increased. This is definitely a good sign.”

India is a big market where are more than 1.3 billion people. There are enough opportunities to increase our exports to this big market. Therefore, we should focus more to export more to the Indian market. We will be deprived of many opportunities in the European market as Bangladesh is rising from Least Developing country (LDCs) to a developing country. So we have to increase business with SAARC countries. If there is a bilateral agreement with SAARC countries, the export will increase faster.

Former BKMEA's vice-president Mohammad Hatem said that many foreign brands opening sales centers in India. Bangladeshi entrepreneurs have been doing business for a long time with most of them. Apart from those, Indian entrepreneurs who produce clothes and supply in Bangladesh, many of them are making garments products from Bangladesh, especially shirts. Export is increasing in India due to these.

Meanwhile, soybean oil has been exported in good amount till March this year. According to the EPB, the export of soybean oil worth $ 13.84 Crore exported. However, the companies said that the export of soybean oil is now stopped. The government of India has given condition of 30 percent VAT for duty-free oil export. The Bangladeshi exporters are demanding the value addition of soybean oil, but the government of India has not yet taken it into practice.

Soybean oil market in India is very big. Our domestic companies were doing well in export there. But now the export is off due to duty-free tariff. Everyone is expecting that the problem will solve soon.

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The Second Meghna and Second Meghna-Gomti Bridge (Daudkandi Bridge) has been inaugurated by the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on 25^th May 2019, Saturday morning through video conferencing from Ganobhaban. The life-line of Bangladesh's economy, the highly anticipated Dhaka-Chittagong highway (N1) is now feeling better! Since the inauguration, the bridges (Meghna, Meghna-Gomti and Kanchpur) are opened for vehicular movement.

Due to the inauguration of the bridges, the people of the south-east are can return to their home with comfort to enjoy the Eid-Al-Fitr holiday. Nearly seven hundred Crore BD Taka for the construction of the new second Meghna, second Meghna-Gomti Bridge including the second Kanchpur Bridge, have been saved and the construction work has been completed almost seven months before the tentative date.

The Japanese ambassador in Bangladesh Mr. Hiroyasu Ejumi, in the inauguration ceremony, expressed hope that Bangladesh-Japan relations will go much further.

In addition to the second Meghna and the second Gomti-Meghna bridge, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the Sasek road connecting project, the Konabari and Chandra flyover at Joydevpur-Chandra-Tangail-Elenga Highway, Kaliakoir- Deohata- Mirzapur- Gharinda underpass and Kadda-1 bridge and Baimail Bridge.

According to local sources, from the booth sides more than 35 thousand vehicles are transported daily by this National Highway (N1). To cross the toll plaza of the two bridges passengers faces the traffic congestion. Due to daily traffic congestion, the highway was become a great suffering route. The construction of the second bridges has begun in 2016, to end the suffering of the last five to six years.

For the financial assistance of JICA and the Bangladesh government, the cost was Taka 1,950 crore for the Meghna-Gomti River which is 1,410 meters long with 17 spans and 17.75 meters wide. The second Meghna Bridge of 17.75 meter width and the cost of Taka 1,750 crore which is 930 meters long including 12 spans. Construction of the two bridges ended in the 41st month for almost three and a half years.

Due to the much-awaited inauguration of Meghna and Meghna-Gomati Bridges, there is no traffic congestion on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway from today (25^th May, 2019). Peoples are not going to suffer for hours after hours and in the Eid return home journey, hoping the passengers will not suffer further. It was found that where there was a congestion hourly traffic jam on the previous day, there was absolutely no traffic congestion on the highway except toll collection time in the same place.

It is known that in any long holiday breaks, including Eid every year caused long traffic congestion when the people's back home. The traffic congestion sometimes crossed the Kanchpur Bridge at the Dhaka Sylhet highway intersection. Last year during the Ramadan, the traffic congestion hit the Mayor Hanif Flyover of Dhaka-Narayanganj under pressure from the people to return home. But the traffic department said that there will be no more such problem again.

Passenger Mr. Ariful traveled on this route told, "I come to Dhaka every week for my business purpose. Before that it took hours after hours to cross the road. Before one day, we had to pass hours in one place. After the bridge started today, I crossed in a moment. Hopefully we will not suffer the trouble of Eid festival”.

The bus driver of Dhaka-Cumilla Tisha Exclusive service told that the bridges have introduced and they are really happy. They had suffered a lot and wasted lots of time before the inauguration. Sometimes even days have passed; they had Iftar and Sahari on the road. It is expected that there will be no more traffic jam on this route.

There is a Joint Expansion in the second Meghna Bridge of 930 meters long. As a result, there will be no obstruction in the movement of this bridge. Vehicles will be able to move on this bridge very quickly. The old Meghna Bridge is of two lanes but the new is of four lanes. That means total six lanes in two bridges. Vehicles with four lanes of roads can move to six lanes in two bridges. As a result, due to the bridge there will be no traffic congestion will occur. The bridges are now free of traffic.

Every year the local administration take additional police help in controlling the traffic congestion of this route. This year, the Second Meghna, Second Meghna-Gomti Bridge (Daudkandi Bridge) and Kanchpur Bridge is ready, so they are expecting that this year there will be no traffic congestion.

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Payra Port and the Changes in Surrounding Area

The Port of Payra is a small seaport which is located in southern part of Bangladesh. It was established by an Act of Parliament in 2013. The port was officially inaugurated in 2016. It is located on the Ramnabad Channel near the Bay of Bengal.

The fate of millions of people in the coastal area surrounding the Payra Sea Port will be changed soon. After completion of the Padma Bridge and launch of the Payra sea port, the progress that will be started in this region will benefit the local people as well the whole country.

Just after the revised Padma Bridge project in 2011, the wind of change in the west part of the Padma Bridge took place. On November 19, 2013, the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina laid the foundation stone of the third seaport of the country in Kalapara under Patuakhali district, adding new dimensions to this change.

The entrepreneurs, industrialists, group of companies of the country have already purchased land on both sides of the highway from Barisal to Kuakata to Payra sea port starting from the west bank of the Padma River. Some planning to build RMG industries, some planning to build other industries, Housing satellite city and some are planning to build wear house etc.

Many people have bought huge quantities of land to build satellite city, housing estate etc. Entrepreneurs said that from Barisal to Piara to Kuakata, a large industrial estate will be build in the near future. Millions of people will be employed here. Trade and business will expand. Barisal will be an industrial-economic based zone.

In view of this, peoples are bought acres of land and started development beside Mawa - Barisal - Kuakata highway. The Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's conclusive decision has resulted in the sale of land from Barisal to Paira port on the two sides of the highway due to the Payra sea port. At present there is no land for sale! The entrepreneurs bought the land for the benefit of the port beforehand.

Many development works have been started in Kalapara due to the Payra harbor. Because of this, the people of the area are enjoying the benefits of increase in the value of the land. Earlier the land which was only 30 thousand Taka per Satanhsha, now the same land has been increased to Taka 3 lac per Shatangsha.

Chairman of Payra Seaport Authority, Commodore M. Jahangir Alam said that the trade and commerce of the area spread through the seaport. Without the port, such industries do not run, except for the industry, the port does not run. Industries and port are complementary to each other.

So, in the next few years, hundreds of garment and industrial establishments will be built in this area to get the benefit of the port. It will open the fate of millions of people in this region. The organizers of Barisal Chamber have started preparations to set up the industries in Barisal and southern districts before starting the port in 2023.

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International River Port beside Padma in Rajshahi

International river port will be built in Rajshahi beside the Padma River. India's delegation is coming soon. The excavation work at BDT 57 crore will start soon. One of the purposes is to build an International river port in Rajshahi is to increase trade with India. In order to build a deep channel in the Padma River for setting up the river port, steps have been taken to start the navigability by digging the Padma.

This whole development work will be implemented by the joint initiative of Bangladesh and India. So there were discussions between the two countries. A representative team of India will come soon to visit the location in Rajshahi city. But before that the excavation work has been started by the government as an initiative in around 6 kilometers of Padma river bank.

Rajshahi city corporation mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton said that a 6 kilometer stretch from Sonai Kandi to Pathanpara would be excavated at a cost of Taka 57 crore. There will be 2.6 million cubic meters of soil. Dr Golam Sarwar, the caretaker engineer of the Dredger Operation Circle, said they would drag in the river until mid June. If targeted excavation work not achieved during that period, then they will wait till next dry season.

Mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation said that the river port will be cost effective in bringing goods from India and from other parts of the country. Bangladeshi businessmen will be able to bring products at low cost. Again, Indian businessmen can invest here and can export products to their country or others. The traders of the two countries will get benefit if the river port is built here.

It is to be noted that during the Pakistan period there was a river port in Rajshahi. Lots of large ships of the country including India came to Rajshahi with goods and products. The sweet famous mango of Rajshahi supplied to Dhaka by ship earlier. But after the Farakka barrage, nowadays, the shelf wakes up all year round except for three months of rainy season. There is an attempt to build the river port again by removing this sand.

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