Digital Topographic Survey of Bridges under Kishoreganj and Rajbari Districts

The Government of Bangladesh has received a loan from the World Bank (WB) toward the cost of the program titled “Program for Supporting Rural Bridges (SupRB)”. The program will be implemented by the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) through the Project Directors Office (PMU) and contract administration of civil works will be carried out by LGED District/Upazila offices. The program will be implemented in a total of 61 districts out of 64 districts of the country, except three hill districts at a cost of USD$618million.

The program Components include (i) Major and minor maintenance of 85,000 meters of bridges, rehabilitation of 24,000 meters of bridges, Capacity Expansion (Widened) of 5000 meters of rural bridges, replacement or newly construction of 20,000 meters of bridges, technical, fiduciary, procurement, social and environmental capacity improvement of LGED including design and implementation of climate resilient bridges, and establishment and operationalize of Grievance Redress System (GRS).

The specific project will require the services of the firm that will conduct detailed Digital Topographical Survey of selected bridges sites to rationalize structural design for each bridge. An 800-meter-long bridge has been proposed to be constructed over Garai River at Chainage 900 m on Narua GC-Sathilapur GC Via Goaldah Ghat road under Upazila: Baliakandi, District: Rajbari. Another 800-meter-long bridge has been proposed to be constructed over Kali River at Chainage 8400 m on Sreenagar UP to Dilalpur Bazar via Bhabanipur Bazar, Mowtopi, Monohorpur, sherbaj road under Upazila: Bhairab, District: Kishoreganj. Besides, a 700 m long bridge has been proposed to be constructed over Kali River at Chainage 8400 m on Ghoraotra River at Chainage 2260 m on Bajitpur-Dilalpur Bazar road under Upazila: Bajitpur, District: Kishoreganj.

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