This time the railway on the southern course, inaugurated now a days

Date: 10/10/2023

This time the railway on the southern course, inaugurated now a days 

The railway to be opened inside the southern path. Munshiganj's Maway (Pratham Alo on Sunday)

The railway is going to be opened at the southern route of the country via the Padma bridge. The brand new railway runs from Dhaka's Gendaria, Keraniganj, Munshiganj via Padma Bridge to Madaripur-Faridpur. The authorities pursuits to begin the rest of the railway from Banga to Jessore next 12 months.

Consistent with railway records, high Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the new railway from Mawa railway station at eleven am these days on Tuesday. After the inauguration, the prime Minister will take a special educate from Mawa station to Banga station in Faridpur. Cupboard individuals and dignitaries such as high Minister Sheikh Hasina are predicted to be passengers. The educate for the leader Minister has been prepared with 14 coaches imported from China.

Dr. Bhangar at two o'clock. The top Minister will participate inside the public meeting prepared with the aid of Faridpur District Awami League at Kazi Abu Yusuf Stadium.

Padma Bridge turned into inaugurated on June 25, 2022. Vehicles are shifting over this two-tale bridge. There may be a teach track inside the bridge. A separate assignment, called the Padma Setu Rail link undertaking, became taken up to set up connectivity between the 2 banks of the Padma.

Mission Director Afzal Hossain told Prothom Alo closing night time that trains will run on this direction soon after the inauguration. However the date has now not been decided yet.

At gift, out of 64 districts of the united states of america, 43 districts have railways. It will likely be linked with Munshiganj and Madaripur railway thru Dhaka-Bhanga railway. Keraniganj, the southern upazila of Dhaka, had no rail connection for see you later. Narail will be newly linked whilst the railway line opens up to Jessore. Railways have plans to increase the railway line from Bhanga to Barisal to Patuakhali in destiny. At present there is no railway in Barisal department.

Officers of the operations branch of the railways said that the Sundarban express at the Dhaka-Khulna direction and the Benapole express on the Dhaka-Jesore course are deliberate to run through Padma Bridge.  Trains are currently plying from Dhaka through Tongi-Joidebpur-Bangabandhu Setu-Ishwardi, Hardinge Bridge. Similarly, there is a plan to run the Madhumati specific educate from Rajshahi to Bhanga to Dhaka thru Padma Bridge. Aside from this, the walking of commuter trains is likewise under attention.

Bangladesh Railway is implementing the Padma Bridge Rail hyperlink assignment divided into 3 components. The period of the primary component Dhaka-Mawa is about 38 km. A brand new station is being constructed at Keraniganj on this component. The length of the Mawa-Bhanga section is about 33 km. There are five new station homes in this section. These two parts are being inaugurated nowadays.

The final part of the project is Bhanga to Jessore. The duration of this phase is ready eighty three km. The wide variety of stations is 14. In line with the undertaking period, Bangladesh Railways has set a goal of commissioning the complete railway line from Dhaka to Jessore via June 2024. The sphere work of the challenge started out in 2019.

Consistent with railway sources, the Padma Bridge Rail hyperlink mission changed into authorised on may also three, 2016. The predicted fee at the time of approval is Tk 34 thousand 988 crore. Currently, the price of this project has improved to 39 thousand 246 crores. The undertaking is on the concern listing (speedy song) of the government. The construction of the railway is being done by the contractor company of that USA funded by using China.

The China Railway group (CREC) contractor has already prepared an analysis of the amount of passenger and freight site visitors that the below-creation Padma bridge hyperlink can cope with. A brief-time period analysis says that with the aid of 2030, thirteen pairs of trains will run day by day on the Dhaka-Banga phase of the railway. Similarly seven pairs of trains will run day by day on Bhanga-Kashiani segment and 5 pairs on Kashiani-Jesho section.In the course of this era, Dhaka-Bhanga phase will transport 4 million passengers in keeping with year, Bhanga-Kashiani segment 1.7 million passengers and Kashiani-Jesho phase 1.Five million passengers according to yr. CREC has made this estimate based totally on 'one-path' motion.