File photo of second Meghna bridge Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka TribuneEarlier on March 16, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the Second Kanchpur Bridge on the Shitalakkhya RiverPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate the second Meghna Bridge and the second Gumti Bridge on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway on Saturday. Earlier on March 16, the prime minister inaugurated the Second Kanchpur Bridge on the Shitalakkhya River. Nuruzzaman said Japanese contractors Obayshi Corporation, Shimizu Corporation, JFE Engineer Corporation, and IHI Infra Systems Company Limited started construction of the 2nd Kanchpur bridge, 2nd Meghna and 2nd Meghna-Gumti bridges on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in January, 2016. “The new Kanchpur bridge is two metres wider than the old one. He said the construction work of the new 930-metre Meghna and 1,410-metre Gumti bridges was completed at a cost of Tk1,750 crore and Tk1,950 crore, respectively.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 24, 2019 12:45 UTC