Being on time has never been the Bangladeshi way, but our government’s failure to complete priority projects that should have ended years ago is just downright disgraceful. Far from completing them, we have barely made any progress on these so-called priority projects and instead allowed the costs to double. Besides the embarrassment of having to re-negotiate the funds for one of the projects with India after costs increased by an astounding 121%, the mounting costs are simply unacceptable. These were labelled priority projects for a reason: We desperately need them to make way for further economic development and to boost transnational connectivity with our neighbours. A strong infrastructure is the framework every country needs to develop sustainably but we are woefully backward in that regard.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 24, 2017 20:37 UTC