Transaction Adviser appointment of CWASA project soon

Chittagong WASA

Jehangir Hussain

CHATTOGRAM, Mar 20: A total of 12 tenders have been submitted for appointment of Transaction Adviser of the 900 million-litre capacity water  treatment Plant of CWASA to be set up at the confluence of Padma-Meghna-Dakatia in Chandpur for Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Shilpa Nagar (BSMSN) at Mirsarai, Chattogram.

Transaction Adviser will be appointed by the Public Private Partnership Authority (PPPA).  PPPA sources said, the last date for submission of tender was February 22.

Evaluations of tenders is progressing, sources said.

The authorities hoped that the Transaction Adviser would be appointed soon.

Meanwhile, the South Korean Company TAEYOUNG Engineering & Construction has already started the detailed feasibility study of the project.

Under this project a total of 132 km long pipeline will be installed to supply water to BSMSN.

CWASA sources said that Tk 10,000 crore will be spent to implement the project.

The Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Shilpa Nagar (BSMSN) at Mirsarai has already gone into operation.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated 50 industrial units, projects and facilities in Economic Zones (EZs) across the country including four factories and the administrative buildings of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Shilpa Nagar (BSMSN) in Chattogram on November 22.

She also opened the 20-km Sheikh Hasina Sarani, 230-KVA gridline and substation at the BSMSN and laid the foundation stone of a water treatment plant with 50 million litre per day (MLD) capacity to be set up by BEZA.

Earlier, Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved 900 million litres water treatment project.

The BSMSN site is located 200 km from Dhaka, 60 km from Chattogram, 70 km from Chattogram Port and the Shah Amanat International Airport and 330 km from Sylhet.

The BSMSN area covers two districts, three upazilas, and 6 unions and comprises of 26 mouzas.

The objective of BSMSN is to provide cost effective, safe, less travel time and logical road network for all road users specially between Mirsorai Economic Zone and capital Dhaka as well as the port city of Chattogram by Dhaka-Chattogram National Highway.

It is a dedicated roadway for transportation of goods lo economic zone and for the transportation of finished products from this zone to destinations at home and abroad.

It will accelerate the economic development of the country through industrialization and creation of employment.

According to the Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (Beza), a total of 153 companies have so far been allotted 6,500 acres of land for setting up factories.

Once operational, this industrial city will create around 15 lakh jobs.

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