PM goes to Patuakhali today
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina goes to Patuakhali today on a daylong visit where she will open and lay foundation stones of a number of establishments.
Official sources said she is scheduled to arrive at Baherchar Bazar in the newly constituted Rangabali upazila at about 10.45am and lay the foundation stone of Upazila Parishad Complex.
Hasina will inaugurate Jubo Pantho Nibas, a 120-bed motel of Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation in Kuakata.
Then she will lay the foundation stone of Kuakata Poura Bhaban and open the 20-bed Kuakata Hospital.
Hasina will lay foundation stones of three bridges on 22-km-long Kuakata-Kalapara road. The bridges have been named after three sons of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman -- Sheikh Kamal, Sheikh Jamal and Sheikh Russel.
The Roads and Highways Department is constructing the bridges -- the 890-metre-long Shaheed Sheikh Kamal bridge over Andharmanik River near Kalapara upazila town at a cost of Tk 65.18 crore, 482.37-metre long Shaheed Sheikh Jamal bridge over Sonatala River at Hazipur point at a cost of Tk 43.43 crore and 408.36-metre long Shaheed Sheikh Russel bridge over Shibbaria River at Mohipur point at a cost of Tk 24.83 crore.
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