Ecnec approves 14 projects worth Tk18,483cr

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presides over the 15th Ecnec meeting of the current fiscal year at the NEC conference room in Dhaka’s Sher-E-Bangla Nagar on Tuesday, January 16, 2018 

Of the projects, nine are new and five are revised

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Tuesday approved a whole of 14 initiatives involving Tk18,482.92 crore.

The approval used to be made at the 15th Ecnec assembly of the contemporary fiscal year held at the NEC convention room in Dhaka’s Sher-E-Bangla Nagar with the committee’s Chairperson and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.

Briefing newshounds after the meeting, Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said: “Of the total challenge cost, Tk16,370.81 crore will come from the government, Tk95 crore from the respective organisation’s personal fund while the rest of Tk 2,017.11 crore from mission assistance.”

Of the projects, nine are new and 5 are revised projects.

The planning minister said the Education Engineering Department (EED) of the Secondary and Higher Education Division would put into effect a venture titled ‘Development of Selected Private Secondary Schools’ via June 2020 with Tk10,649.05 crore.

He said the project will make certain improvement of infrastructures of 3,000 dilapidated private secondary schools.

According to a 2014 document of Bangladesh Bureau of Educational Information and Statistics (BANBEIS), the range of students at the secondary degree is 91,60,365. These college students are analyzing at 327 authorities secondary schools alongside 19,357 non-public ones.

Under the project, there will be building of academic as well as other integral structures in these 3,000 selected faculties throughout the us of a alongside ensuring furnish of essential fixtures to the instructional institutions.

The other projects Ecnec authorized on Tuesday encompass ‘Emergency 2007 Cyclone Recovery and Rehabilitation Project (ECRRP): LGED Part’ with the value of Tk1,618.10 crore; ‘Construction of Flood Shelter Centres at Flood and River Erosion-prone Area (3rd phase)’ with the price of Tk1,507.43 crore; and ‘Greater Chittagong Rural Infrastructure Development Project-3’ with the estimated cost of Tk1,290 crore