The Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase has given its consent to proposals of the Roads and Highways Department for variations of six packages under the four-lane Dhaka-Chittagong highway project with overall increase of expenditures.
A meeting of the committee made the approval at the Cabinet Division yesterday with Finance Minister AMA Muhith in the chair.
Of the proposals of six-package variations, the expenditure has increased for four variations while cost for two other variations has fallen, additional secretary of the Cabinet Division Mustafizur Rahman told the journalists after the meeting.
In the four variation orders, the cost has increased by a total of Tk151.43 crore while the original total figure was Tk844 crore.
In other two variation orders, the cost has dropped by Tk11.35 crore from total original amount of Tk346.50 crore.
Mustafizur Rahman said the increase and fall of the cost is a common phenomenon in the development projects.
“The addition of works inflates the cost while elimination of works reduce it.”
Other six proposals of the committee are variation of the agreement for Chittagong Station Remodeling under JICA ODA funded Dhaka-Chittagong Rail Route Development (Tk251.86 crore, increased by Tk24.66 crore), appointment of contractor for the package WD-4 (Lot-b) under construction of new rail track to Dhalarchar from Ishwardi via Pabna (Tk159.80 crore), construction of RHD headquarters building at Tejgaon under Joydevpur-Chandra-Tangail-Alenga four-lane project (Tk145.64 crore), package number-11 (lot-1) and package number-17 (lot-20 under the Purbachal New City project (Tk14.09 crore and Tk15.04 crore), procurement proposals of three groups under one package for the construction of apartment for limited and middle income people at Uttara (Tk170.08 crore, Tk49 crore and Tk79 crore) and construction of the remaining part of the bridge number-6 at Uttara Adarsha Town, third phase (Tk12.52 crore).
Besides, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved three proposals yesterday. Finance Minister AMA Muhith also chaired the meeting.
The firms going to get the job of Block 3 construction of the Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park at Kaliakoir include Fiber Home Limited, Technology Park Malaysia SDN BHD, Irish Corporation Bharad MSC Technology Center SDN BHD and Alfa Informatics Limited.
Industry Ministry’s proposal to de-list Chittagong Chemical Corporation was also approved.
