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After 43 years, the Maitree Express renewed rail transport between Bangladesh and Kolkata of India in 2008. [63] A second rail service, the Bandhan Express, connecting Kolkata and Khulna, began in 2017. [64] A third service, the Mitali Express, from Siliguri to Dhaka, started in June 2022. [65] Bangladesh is part of the Trans–Asian railway ...
In 2013, the government of Bangladesh formulated a policy aimed at coordinating multimodal transportation in the country. Two years later the Strategic Transport Plan was finalized which recommended the construction of 21 transport hubs in Dhaka Division. Kamalapur was one of the proposed transport hubs. [1]
In contrast to practices in other nations, Bangladesh has four ministries responsible for transportation within the country. They have specific responsibilities, such as: Road safety: Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges; Civil aviation: Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism; Maritime transport: Ministry of Shipping
Road Transport and Highways Division signed an agreement with the government of Japan worth 88 billion Taka to build three bridges and one flyover. [5] The department drafted the Road Transport Act in 2017 which was subsequently approved by the cabinet of Bangladesh .
The project is being managed by the Communications Ministry's Dhaka Transport Co-ordination Authority, and a consortium of foreign and Bangladeshi firms known as the NKDM Association is acting as the project's general consultant. The NKDM Association consists of Nippon Koei Japan and Development Design Consultants (local consultant - Bangladesh).
Head office of Roads and Highways Department under construction at South Kunipara, Tejgaon, Dhaka. The Roads and Highways Department (Bengali: সড়ক ও জনপথ অধিদপ্তর) is an agency of the Government of Bangladesh responsible for the construction and maintenance of highways and bridges across Bangladesh.
Department of Government Transport is the government department responsible for providing transport to government departments and agencies and maintenance of the government transport pool vehicles in Bangladesh and is located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. [1] It is under the Ministry of Public Administration. It is responsible for deputy secretaries to ...
Transport in Dhaka consists of a mixture of cars, buses, rickshaws, motorcycles, and pedestrians, all vying for space in an environment where congestion is a daily challenge. The average traffic speed is less than seven kilometres per hour (4.3 mph), the slowest in the world, [ 1 ] and congestion was estimated to cost the economy US$6.5 billion ...