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Mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) AHM Khairuzzaman Liton on Thursday (9 May) said fame of the present Rajshahi has spread in home and abroad as it has got a new look amid massive infrastructural and architectural development works.
"Widen streets, cleaned atmosphere, road dividers with green trees and plants and crafts, improved civic amenities and eye-catching street lighting at night have made the city attractive enormously," he said.
The mayor revealed this while addressing a press conference at the city Bhaban conference hall here.
The city with a 10-lakh population has been familiarized as clean, green, education, health and habitable in both home and abroad, Liton said.Giving an illustration on the city's development schemes along with achievement of those, he said they have constructed 238.75-kilometer carpeting roads, 260.30-kilometer cement-concrete roads, 350.05-kilometer drains, 40.22-kilometer footpaths and 2,099.50-meter boundary walls.
In addition to the development of 29 Eidgah, 52 graveyards and one mortuary, development and beautification works of 16 water bodies were completed.
Terming the propagandas related to his development works being spread by some conspirator circles as baseless, biased and intentional, the RCC mayor said the city people will be more benefited when the implementation of the under-construction flyovers and foot over bridges will complete successfully.
He said they are implementing a project titled "Integrated Urban Infrastructure Development in Rajshahi City" involving Taka 2,931.61 crore for its cherished development at present.
Problems related to unfit and narrow sections of the present drains and its low-sewerage capacity were removed. All the culverts were widened besides removing the silts from the base of the drains to enhance the sewerage capacity.
He told the journalists that the physical infrastructure development were implemented in order to attain the goal of developing the overall environmental health system through building an effective and permanent water sewerage system in the city.
He said they have adopted three more uplift projects amounting to Taka 2,705.08 crore for infrastructural development.
Chairman of Rajshahi Development Authority Dr Ziaul Haque, RCC Panel Mayors Nizam-ul-Azim and Abdul Momin and Chief Executive Officer ABM Sharif Uddin were present, among others.
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