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The National Economic Council, presided over by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, yesterday approved the revised ADP.
Apart from the rail link project, allocations for the Matarbari 1,200MW coal-fired power plant and the Payra Deep-sea Port have been increased.
The allocation for the Mass Rapid Transit Line-6 (MRT-6), under which the country s first ever metro rail is being built, remained the same, according to documents.
Apart from the Padma bridge and the Rooppur power plant projects, the allocation for Chattogram-Cox s Bazar Rail Line was also reduced.
The eighth fast-track project, Rampal Power Plan, is not being funded by the ADP.
Most of the projects are running behind schedule largely due to uncertainty over funding, the Gulshan cafe attack in 2016, complexity over designs, planning, and land acquisition.
Completion of the much-awaited Padma Multipurpose Bridge will not only efficiently connect the southern region to the capital, it will herald a new horizon of railway communications in the country.
The rail line via Padma bridge will cut short the travel time between Dhaka and south-western districts like Khulna and Jashore by half, creating scope for expanding rail networks in these and other southern districts crisscrossed by rivers earlier thought to be too logistically challenging.
The government has already undertaken a project titled Padma Bridge Rail Link Project (PBRLP) to connect the capital and Jashore with a 169km rail line via the bridge. The link is a part of the Trans-Asian Railway Network.