Padma Bridge: All set for establishment of the last range today
The last range of the Padma Bridge is probably going to be introduced on columns 12 and 13 today connecting the two sides of the powerful Padma stream as the nation's kin draw nearer to having their since quite a while ago treasured blessing from heaven.
The 41st range has just been taken close to the columns and is required to be introduced today except if thick haze makes serious issues, venture authorities said.
"We would like to introduce the last range tomorrow [today]. The range has just been taken close to the columns," Belayet Hossain, chief overseer of Bangladesh Bridge Authority, the executing organization of the task, said.
"Establishment of wharfs and ranges had been the primary test confronting the venture and is relied upon to be finished. This will be a major accomplishment," Belayet, additionally the secretary of Bridges Division, revealed to The Daily Star the previous evening.
Execution of the venture was conceivable because of a bold choice by Prime Minister Sheik Hasina, he added.
Answering to an inquiry, Belayet said they were confident of finishing the remainder of the venture works inside 15 months, as the Covid-19 pandemic hindered the movement of the works.
When opened to traffic, the 6.15km-long extension will associate the capital with 21 southwestern locale. It is required to help the nation's GDP by 1.2 percent.
Following the establishment of the 40th range on December 4, conversations started about the establishment of the last range. Street Transport and Bridges Minster Obaidul Quader on Monday said the last range would be introduced by December 10.
The transition to introduce the last range made a lot of energy among the individuals as they are holding up anxiously to see the culmination of the range establishment work.
The specialists, nonetheless, have dropped their arranged festival of the establishment of the last range because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Visiting the venture site on Tuesday, this reporter found the 150-meter-long range being moved to a wharf from the shore toward the beginning of the day. A public banner of Bangladesh was swinging from the casing of the colossal steel structure.
"The imagined Padma Bridge is currently very nearly turning into a reality with years-long endeavors of the nearby and unfamiliar labor force," read a trim on the range.
The last range was additionally hung with a few different trims with a message written in a Chinese language.
Mamun, who has been filling in as a foreman of the task since 2015, said he had the advantage of viewing the establishment of the primary range in September 2017.
"I was there when the principal length was introduced. Our public banner was there with the principal range. Presently the last range will likewise convey our public banner," he told this journalist.
"At the point when I began working here in 2015, there was no structure over the stream. Presently a whole extension will be there. It gives me monstrous delight," Mamun said.
Despite the fact that there was mist on the waterway yesterday, the range was taken close to columns 12 and 13 around 5:45pm, Dewan Md Abdul Kader, chief specialist and venture supervisor (fundamental extension), told this reporter.
"We have an arrangement to introduce the last range tomorrow [today] except if mist makes any issue," Project Director Shafiqul Islam disclosed to The Daily Star.
Railroad and street pieces are being introduced now and some others works, including establishment of power and gas lines, must be finished before the launch of the extension to traffic.
Out of 2,917 street sections, around 1,300 were introduced till Tuesday while 1,930 out of 2,959 railroad pieces were introduced, authorities said.
The current cutoff time of the most optimized plan of attack venture is June 2021, which means the task is probably going to see another expansion of its cutoff time. The task cost rose to Tk 30,193 crore after a few updates of the cutoff time.
The Pamda Bridge venture is being executed with the nation's own assets after the World Bank and other global moneylenders had dropped financing over claims of defilement, which were later discovered to be false.
