Nationwide rail connectivity with Mongla, the country’s second-largest seaport, is going to be launched in the last week of October. About 98 percent of the railway work has already been completed. Details are now underway; The officials concerned with the project are expecting to finish this month.
They said that when the train movement starts on the Mongla-Khulna railway, new horizons will be opened in the trade and commerce of the southwestern region, including the Mongla port. Because not only the entire country, they have plans to develop the railway as an international rail route. Through this, the trade of the port will be increased.
The project director Arifuzzaman said that 98 percent of Mongla-Khulna railway work has been completed. We have a plan to finish the work this month. Also, it is expected that train movement will start through this route in the last week of October. That’s how we are moving forward.
The government has undertaken the project of establishing a railway from Phultala railway station in Khulna to Mongla port to facilitate the transportation of goods to India, Nepal and Bhutan under the transit facility. On December 21, 2010, the National Economic Council Executive Committee (ECNEC) meeting approved this railway line construction project. The cost for the first phase of the project is estimated at 1,721 crores.
