The first span of the Padma Bridge superstructure will be installed between two pillars at Janjira point next month, the project’s director has revealed. The soil condition in the Mawa site is also awful,” said Md Shafiqul Islam, the project director of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge project. A project authority can re-estimate its costs only three times, but the rule has been set aside for the Padma bridge project. The World Bank had demanded a full and fair investigation of the corruption allegations to renew World bank financing. On Feb 12, 2017, a Toronto court threw out a police case charging SNC-Lavalin officials of corruption in the Padma Bridge case.

Source: Dhaka Tribune July 13, 2017 15:22 UTC