Three deals for metro rail project signed

Staff Correspondent: The government has signed three deals with Chinese and Thai firms on the country's first-ever metro rail project.

The deal was signed through a programme at Sonargaon Hotel in the capital on Wednesday.

Under the deals, Italian-Thai Development Public Company Limited, a Thailand-based construction firm, and Chinese state-owned Sinohydro Corporation Limited will build metro rail tracks, stations and depot of the long cherished 20.1-km Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Line-6 that will link north Dhaka with the south through 16 stations.

Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL), a Bangladeshi enterprise founded to implement the metro rail lines across the Dhaka city, signed the separate contract packages (CPs) including CP-2, CP-3 and CP-4 worth over 58.26 billion taka (about 719 million U.S. dollars) with the firms.

Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) management director M Mofazzal Hossain said, We signed three separates deals to build metro rail lines.

After the programme Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader told risingbd.com, We will complete the construction in time. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is also working on it.



risingbd/Dhaka/May 3, 2017/Hasan/Nasim