China Rail Projects
Bangladesh: PMO to review plans, costs of three China-funded rail projects
Dhaka: The Bangladesh Prime Minister's Office has constituted a committee to review negotiated contract costs of three railways projects, which are supposed to be implemented with Chinese finance and by Chinese companies, and whether the projects should go ahead as they have been planned, media reports said,
The decision came at a meeting held Wednesday at the PMO over four projects that have Chinese links. Prime Minister's Principal Secretary Ahmad Kaikaus chaired the meeting, The Daily Star reported.
The committee, led by Shamima Nargis of the physical infrastructure division of the Planning Commission, would have members from the railways ministry, Bangladesh Railway (BR), Economic Relations Division (ERD), and Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED), the newspaper reported.
The Daily Star reported that it learnt about the developments from five railways officials who sought anonymity.
"The committee will review all three projects. It will review both cost and technical issues," one of the officials said.
Conversion of metre-gauge rail into dual-gauge between Akhaura and Sylhet; construction of dual-gauge double line between Joydebpur and Ishwardi; and construction of dual-gauge double line between Joydebpur and Mymensingh and Jamalpur are the projects in question, The Daily Star reported.
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