A far-sighted initiative by the pro-people govt

Abdul Khleque Khandker:Before grand commissioning of Bangabandhu Bridge over the mighty river Jamuna by the daughter of father of the nation, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the vast territories of Bangladesh in the North, West and Southwest were left asunder by the mighty river, the Jamuna. 

But the construction of the BangabandhuBridge over the Jamuna has dispelled that curse in the system of our communication network, is accepted by one and all of home and abroad.

This gigantic bridge was primarily meant for road communication, but later, the railway communication was managed over it, somehow. So, all the trains bound for the North, West and Southwest of the country start limping over this bridge below the speed 20 km per hour and halting on either side of the bridge for precautions wasting many valuable times of the passengers.  

At last this great problem is going to be removed soon. A source of the Railway Ministry has recently said that Hon’ble Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina may lay the foundation stone for a separate railway bridge over the mighty river Jamuna  soon.

This is a time befitting step by the pro-people government for the safe and smooth railway communication system of the country, think many conscious people of the country.

At present the trains get across the river over the Bangabandhu Jamuna bridge at a snail’s motion for safety of the passengers and the bridge. Now the train moves below 20 km per hour over the bridge, but on completion of the bridge near about by 2024, the doubled-line trains will run at the speed of 100 km/hour over the bridge, the ministry source further said.

Some passengers shudder even today when they recall that awful night when the passenger laden train between Dhaka and Dinajpur leaned against the bridge ward by a stormy wind when the train was half way the bridge a few years ago.

“We got narrow escape, we got rebirth” some passengers who were on board the train that night said in choked voice. Thereafter, many regular passengers skirted railway journey over the Jamuna bridge, a survey of that time said.

Had the train canted the river ward, it might have fallen into some 60 feet below the mighty Jamuna river full of surfs and current. Ah, what a rebirth, ah, what a narrow escape for the passengers on board the train that day! It was really a furry incident!

Now Bangabandhu’s worthy daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has had a well-thought-out plan for carrying our country ahead crossing the threshold of development. There can hardly be found any far-flung village of Bangladesh without metaled roads and developed communication system. As a result, the wave of development is tossing the whole of Bangladesh, commented a man while sipping tea in a crowdy stall.

There is no denying the fact that sans traffic jam it is possible to travel the whole Bangladesh within the shortest possible time, said a job holder whose mode of job is tour all over the country. 

A survey report on the recent road communication of Bangladesh said, “Once where there was wavy current of water as in the far-flung Challan Beel or other moors in Bangladesh are now turned metaled roads by which people are moving fast and transporting their commodities from one place to another earning their livelihood. Thus, once waste land is now the hub of income source for majority village people of Bangladesh.”

The Bangabandhu bridge along with other numerous bridges over the rivers, creeks and canals of Bangladesh have opened up new vistas of prosperity for working people of our country that derived from the far-sighted vision of our government.

The under- construction Padma Bridge and the proposed Railway Bridge over the mighty Jamuna river will, no doubt, take our country far ahead crossing the threshold of development.