“Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate it in June 2021,” he told reporters at the Secretariat.
Finance Division and Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) signed an agreement on the payment of the loan of Padma Multipurpose Bridge at the Secretariat in presence of the Minister.
“Eighty-three percent of the bridge’s main work is complete,” he said.
The government has lent Tk 29,894 crore to the BDA through the Finance Division. It will be repaid within 35 years at one percent interest rate, he added.
The pile driving work of the bridge has been completed while 31 out of 42 pillars have been installed. The rest will be done within December this year, Quader said.
Work on installing girders is currently going on at Mawa and Janjira points.
The 6.15-kilometre bridge is Bangladesh’s largest infrastructure project till date. Once in operation, the bridge is expected to boost the GDP by 1.2 percent.