PM to visit C'nawabganj today

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to visit Chapainawabganj today.

Hasina will inaugurate seven development projects, including the second Mohananda Bridge, and lay foundation stones to four others in the district.

In the afternoon, she will address a rally in the town.   

Other development projects to be inaugurated are: a youth training centre; sub-station of Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture; an eye hospital of Jatiya Andho Kallayan Samity; a new building of Bir Shreshtha Shaheed Captain Mohiuddin Jahangir College; and a new building of Fire Service and Civil Defence Station.    

She will inaugurate the construction works of upgrading the 100-bed Chapainawabganj Adhunik Sadar Hospital to a 250-bed hospital; repairing the Kansat-Rohonpur-Bholahat road; a project to protect Alatuli area from erosion by the Padma "Alatuli Area Rakkha Prokolpo"; and a 100MW power station project.

The 546.60m long bridge with 2,400m approach roads on both sides cost Tk 49.79 crore. LGED constructed the bridge.