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Padma Bridge: Tk 10.97cr toll collected in 3 days

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The government has earned Tk 10.97 crore in revenue from tolls collected from vehicles that crossed the Padma Bridge in three days.Tk 10.97 crore was collected from 12:00am on Thursday to 11:59pm on Saturday, according to Bangladesh Bridges Authority.A total of 74,222 vehicles crossed the Padma Bridge during this period.Of them, a total of 22,703 … Read more

New record set for toll collection in one day

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News Desk : dhakamirror.comPadma Bridge had its greatest toll collection ever on Friday, collecting Tk 41.9 million from 31,723 vehicles.The disclosure was made on Saturday by the bridges authority, who stated that the toll was collected on Friday from 12:00 am to 11:59 pm.On Friday, 12,056 vehicles paid Tk 17.01 million at the toll plaza … Read more

51,316 vehicles cross Padma Bridge on first day

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Tk 2cr collected as tolls
A total of 51,316 vehicles crossed the Padma Bridge on the first day on Sunday.
The authorities collected Tk 2.09 crore from these vehicles as tolls.
The much-awaited Padma Bridge was opened for vehicular movement on Sunday from 6:00am.
According to the Bangladesh Bridge Authority between 6:00am on Sunday and

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20,000 vehicles cross Padma Bridge in 10hrs

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A total of 20,000 vehicles crossed the Padma Bridge from Mawa and Janjira points on the routes between Dhaka and 21 south and south-western districts in the first 10 hours after its opening for traffic on Sunday.
Among the vehicles that crossed the bridge, 60.53 per cent were motorcycles, said Bangladesh Bridge Authority executive engineer Mahmudur Rahman

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Padma Bridge opens for vehicles in a festive mood

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At last after years of waiting the Padma Bridge was open for vehicular movement from Sunday morning.
On the first day, people on buses, cars and motorcycles get on the bridge in a festive mood.
Defying order, many people were seen walking and taking photos on the bridge parking their vehicles aside.
The opening of the bridge has brought comfort to the workers of goods-laden vehicles

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PM Hasina inaugurates Padma Bridge

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Prime minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the Padma Multipurpose Bridge on Saturday.
The prime minister unveiled the inauguration plaque of the much-anticipated 6.15 kilometre Padma Bridge for vehicular movement at 11:58am at Mawa end.
Speaking at the auspicious moment of inaugurating the bridge, an emotion-choked prime minister remembered Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the family members killed heinously on 15 August 1975 and freedom fighters who laid their lives to liberate the country in

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11 days ahead of inauguration, Padma Bridge lit up from end to end

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For the first time, the 6.15 km Padma bridge was illuminated from end to end as all the lamps on the 415 lampposts on the bridge were switched on this evening.
The 175-watt LED lights illuminated the main bridge with 328 lampposts, 46 on the Jajira side viaduct and 41 on the Mawa side viaduct, reports our Munshiganj

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Spectacular arrangements surrounding the opening of Padma Bridge

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News Desk : dhakamirror.com
Last minute preparations are underway in the bridge area. The Padma Bridge is going to be opened on 25 June. The inauguration of the Padma Bridge on June 25 will be celebrated in a manner that will truly let the general public be a part of the achievement – Bangladesh’s first independently funded mega project.
Every one of the country’s 4,000-plus unions will light up the night sky with fireworks and fire lanterns. In the daytime, clouds of helium balloons will float across the country.
After the official inauguration of the 6.15-kilometre bridge at the Mawa end, the

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How much will it cost to cross the Padma, the government fixed

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By Dhaka Mirror : dhakamirror.com
The government has fixed the toll of the under-construction Padma bridge, which is at least 1.5 times higher than the average toll paid on ferries plying the Padma.
The bridge division under Road Transport and Bridges Ministry on Tuesday issued a notification fixing different toll rates for different transports.
As per the gazette, the toll rates are Tk 100 for a motorcycle, Tk 750 for a car and a jeep, Tk 1,200 for a pick-up van, Tk 1,300 for a microbus, Tk 1,400 for a minibus (31 seats or less than

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Padma Bridge will open to traffic by 2022 end: PM

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday told the parliament that work is going on in full swing to open Padma Bridge to traffic by the end of this year.
The premier said this while replying to a query from Awami League MP Shahiduzzaman Sarker.
Earlier on several occasions, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader had said that Padma Bridge will open to traffic in June this year.
The question-answer session scheduled for Prime Minister was tabled as the House went into session at 11:05am with Speaker

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It’s possible to walk across the Padma now

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All 2,917 road slabs in place on Padma bridge
The Padma bridge project yesterday moved one step closer to completion after the authority finished the installation of all road slabs linking both sides of the Padma river through the roadway.
Now it is possible to cross the Padma river by walking across the 6.15 kilometre-long bridge.
The last road slab was installed on the span that linked the pillars 12 and 13 of

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Int’l tender for Padma Bridge this month: PM

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that international tenders for Padma Bridge would be floated by the end of the current month and work on the bridge would start soon using government’s own resources. “If we are elected in the next poll, we will complete the twin-track rail-and-road bridge at the shortest possible time,” she told a views-exchange meeting of

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Padma Bridge in 3 yrs: Muhith

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Construction to start in current fiscal, no changes in design, he tells JS
Finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith on Monday told parliament that the government would start construction of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge in the current fiscal and complete the project in three years on own funding without changing the design of the bridge.
Muhith, after withdrawing the government’s proposal to the World Bank for funding the

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Fresh reminder from WB

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Padma graft allegations must be thoroughly investigated, it insists
The World Bank funding of the Padma bridge project will depend on the satisfactory implementation of all the measures it has asked the government to take, the bank said in a statement yesterday.
Last week, the global lender announced that it was re-engaging in the project after the government had fulfilled some of its conditions, but for the project’s implementation the bank

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Padma work by May

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Says Muhith; Mashiur says he is on leave, gets dropped from Ecnec, economic affairs committee too
The government plans to begin the construction of the much-talked about Padma bridge in April-May next year, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said yesterday.
“Now we should float the tender; it will be done next month,” he told reporters at his ministry in the capital.
The minister said the government would lay the foundation stone for the country’s biggest

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Target clean project

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Lenders to gain control for containing corruption, ensuring quality
The long-cherished Padma bridge project will now be implemented with a new approach, with donors having more clout in the procurement to ensure quality work and prevent corruption in the project.
Donor agencies and the government are now negotiating about various options to this end after the main financier, World Bank, has formally revived its $1.2 billion credit deal for the

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Cost to go up by $145m

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The cost of the Padma bridge project would increase by around 5 percent or $145.75 million due to a one-year delay in starting construction, an expert said yesterday.
The bridge project would now cost $3.06 billion.
The construction was supposed to be done by 2015. Now, it will take a year more if

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Loss of time, loss of money

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Bridge Site Protection
Loss of time, loss of money
Delay to cost govt Tk 100cr more
Delay in the Padma Bridge construction is now forcing the government to spend an extra Tk 100 crore to protect an area of the bridge site from river erosion.
The government acquired 76 hectares of low-lying land in Janjira of Shariatpur in 2010 to set up a construction yard there

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