At a meeting, the Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase with Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in the chair also approved a number of procurement proposals of different ministries.

As per the Food Ministry’s proposal, the Food Department will have to pay Tk 54 crore for procuring 10 million jute hessian bags.

Briefing reporters after the meeting, the finance minister said although some workers and employees of state-owned jute mills are on a movement for arrears, it will be possible to supply the bags as per the requirement as still 44,000 workers are working at different mills getting regular salaries.

The committee approved a proposal of the Power Division to set up a 3.77 MW solar power plant in Bera upazila of Pabna district in the private sector.

Mostafa Motor Limited and Solarland Electric Science and Technology will jointly establish the plant from which state-owned Power Development Board (PDB) will purchase electricity for the next 20 years at a levelised tariff of Tk 8.59 per kilowatt hour.

The committee gave its go-ahead to a proposal of the Road Transport and Bridges Ministry to construct a bridge over the Dudhkumar River at Bhurungamari-Sonaihat-Vitarband-Nageswari highway.

MM Builders won the contract to construct the bridge at a cost of Tk 135 crore.