Mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) AHM
Khairuzzaman Liton today said fame of the present Rajshahi has spread in home
and abroad as it has got a new look amid massive infrastructural and
architectural development works.
“Widen streets, cleaned atmosphere, road dividers with green trees and plants
and crafts, improved civic amenities and eye-catching street lighting at
night have made the city attractive enormously,” he said.
The mayor revealed this while addressing a press conference at the city
Bhaban conference hall here.
The city with a 10-lakh population has been familiarized as clean, green,
education, health and habitable in both home and abroad, Liton said.
Giving an illustration on the city’s development schemes along with
achievement of those, he said they have constructed 238.75-kilometer
carpeting roads, 260.30-kilometer cement-concrete roads, 350.05-kilometer
drains, 40.22-kilometer footpaths and 2,099.50-meter boundary walls.
In addition to the development of 29 Eidgah, 52 gra
veyards and one mortuary,
development and beautification works of 16 water bodies were completed.
Terming the propagandas related to his development works being spread by some
conspirator circles as baseless, biased and intentional, the RCC mayor said
the city people will be more benefited when the implementation of the under-
construction flyovers and foot over bridges will complete successfully.
He said they are implementing a project titled “Integrated Urban
Infrastructure Development in Rajshahi City” involving Taka 2,931.61 crore
for its cherished development at present.
Problems related to unfit and narrow sections of the present drains and its
low-sewerage capacity were removed. All the culverts were widened besides
removing the silts from the base of the drains to enhance the sewerage
capacity.
He told the journalists that the physical infrastructure development were
implemented in order to attain the goal of developing the overall
environmental health system through building an effecti
ve and permanent water
sewerage system in the city.
He said they have adopted three more uplift projects amounting to Taka
2,705.08 crore for infrastructural development.
Chairman of Rajshahi Development Authority Dr Ziaul Haque, RCC Panel Mayors
Nizam-ul-Azim and Abdul Momin and Chief Executive Officer ABM Sharif Uddin
were present, among others.