A bottleneck on the rail route between Dhaka and the country s north-western and southern regions is unlikely to go away anytime soon as one of the two projects aimed at improving the track capacity are stuck in limbo due to delayed loan negotiations and a cost-cutting directive.
To tackle the growing traffic movement, Bangladesh Railway (BR) had undertaken a project to build a dedicated rail bridge over the Jamuna river and another to turn the Joydebpur-Ishwardi section into a dual-gauge double line.
While the first project has witnessed 20 percent progress and is expected to be completed by August 2024, physical work on the second is yet to start.
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