There once was a time when carpenters at an industrial estate of the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) in Pirojpur’s Nesarabad upazila would use handmade equipment to produce various types of furniture.
Bridge on Kacha River in Pirojpur: Wait gets stretched to a year and half
An under-construction pier of the Eighth Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge, which was previously set to be open this month, over the Kacha river in Pirojpur. According to a newly set deadline, the Tk 822-crore bridge might get completed by June next year. The photo was taken recently. Photo: Habibur Rahman Our Correspondent, Pirojpur Our Correspondent, Pirojpur
Thanks to slow progress in construction work, people of Pirojpur will not see their much-awaited bridge on the Kacha river inaugurated this month.
The Eighth Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge, 998 metres in length, was scheduled to be opened this month. With the lion s share of its funding provided by China, its work started in October 2017.