Bangladesh floats tender for training of river linked up with mega bridge project
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The Bangladeshi government Sunday floated a tender for training of river linked up with the country' s proposed longest Padma Bridge, an official told Xinhua.
"The tender for river training, an important component of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge, was floated today (Sunday)," said an official of Bangladesh's Ministry of Communications who preferred to be unnamed said.
He said that the tender for river training will be worth 70 billion taka (about 880 million U.S. dollars).
Tender documents will be collected from Sept. 22, he said, adding the last date for submitting bid is Nov. 25.
The Bangladeshi government in June floated international bids for construction of the main infrastructure of the stalled Padma Multipurpose Bridge, which will be worth 100 billion taka (1.28 billion U.S. dollars).
Earlier in June, the Bangladeshi government signed a deal with a Bangladesh-Malaysia joint venture to construct an 11-km approach road linked up with the Padma Bridge.
Abu Naser, spokesman of Bangladesh's Ministry of Communications, said then that an 11 billion taka (141 million U.S. dollars) agreement was inked between Bangladesh's Abdul Monem Limited (AML) and Malaysia's HCM Engineering Sdn Bhd.
The implementation of about 3 billion U.S. dollars bridge project was stalled after the World Bank cancelled 1.2 billion U.S. dollars loan over graft allegations.
The proposed 25-meter-wide and 10-km-long bridge will be built over Padma River, one of the three major rivers in Bangladesh. About 6.15 km of the bridge will be built over the river while the remaining part will be on both banks.
Apart from connecting nearly 30 million people in Bangladesh's southwest region to the rest of the country, the bridge will enhance regional trade and collaboration along the Asian No.1 highway and the Trans-Asian railway network. Endi
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