The Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan has expressed hope that the work of installing rail tracks on Padma Bridge would begin next week.
“The installation of railway tracks on Padma Bridge may start next week. The Bangladesh Railway will hold a meeting with the bridge authority concerned on Saturday. The decision in this regard will be taken in that meeting,” he said.
The minister expressed his optimism over it while he was talking to the journalists at the Mawa Station during the inspection of the Padma Bridge Rail Link Project.
“It will be possible to run trains on a new line from Dhaka to Bhanga by June 2023,” Sujan added.
The Padma Bridge Rail Link Project is one of the ten top-priority projects of the government, he said adding that a new railway line will connect Jashore with Dhaka.
The project is scheduled to run until June 30, 2024, he said.
Of three parts, one part will be from Dhaka to Mawa while the second part from Mawa to Bhanga and the third part from Bhanga to Jashore, he said.
Director General of Bangladesh Railway Dhirendra Nath Mazumder, Concerned Project Director Afzal Hossain and Additional Director General (Infrastructure) Kamrul Ahsan were also present, among others, on the occasion.
