Padma Bridge To Be Opened to Traffic in June as Per Target: FM

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has said that the Padma Bridge will be launched in June instead of December. A meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase and the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs was held under the chairmanship of the Finance Minister on Thursday (April 7).

Responding to a question from reporters about the delay in the launch of the Padma Bridge, the finance minister said, "The prime minister has said it will be done by the end of this year. We expect to be able to launch it by the end of this year (Fiscal Year), this is our expectation. Our fiscal year will end in June. We believe we can finish the work in the meantime."

Earlier, during the question and answer session in Parliament yesterday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said, "The Padma Bridge will be commissioned by the end of this year."

Later, Cabinet Secretary Khandaker Anwarul Islam went on to explain, "One of the logics of what the Prime Minister has said is that the recent arrival of some goods for the Padma Bridge is a problem for the Ukraine war." The goods were supposed to arrive in March. But now there is some uncertainty. For this, I think December has been mentioned. We have time till December 2022."