SANGSAD BHABAN, June 6, 2024 (BSS) - The government has allocated Taka 7318 crore for the Bridges Division in the proposed budget for the fiscal year (FY) 2024-25.

The allocation is Taka 611 core lower than the revised budget of Taka 9,073 crore of the previous FY 2023-24. 

In his speech, Finance Minister AH Mahmood Ali today said in FY2022-23, 6.5 km bridges/culverts have been constructed in 492 upazilas of the country. There is a target to construct 4 km bridges/culverts in the current FY2023-24. 

He said in the past 15 years, a total of 445,807 meters of new bridges have been built and 4,715 kilometers of drains, and 18,010 meters of bridges/culverts have been constructed. 

Ali said in the small-scale water resource sector, 1,921 kilometers of embankments have been constructed/reconstructed, 1,934 water resource infrastructures/regulators have been built, 7,405 kilometers of canals have been re-excavated, and 32 rubber dams have been constructed.