‘Put emphasis on railways, river ways’

Staff Correspondent: Planning Minister MA Mannan said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has given an instruction to put emphasis on constructing railways and river ways rather than constructing highways anew.

The planning minister made the disclosure while talking to newsmen after a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) at the NEC conference room in the capital's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar on Tuesday.

Mannan said, “Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said, we have constructed a number of roads. Now, we have to emphasize on constructing railways and river ways.”

The prime minister has instructed to take necessary steps for protecting small rivers in the country, he said.


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