For this, Tk 20,000 crore would be allocated in the budgets of the next four fiscal years, she said.
Sheikh Hasina was addressing a rally after inaugurating a Tk 96 crore project for protecting a construction yard of Padma bridge from the river erosion at Janjira point.
A large portion of the 76 hectares of land acquired for the construction yard went into the river over the last one year, although the government has spent several crores of taka to contain the river erosion.
Under the project, a joint venture firm will cut and fill 2.16 kilometres stretch of the riverbank and secure it with concrete blocks, geo-bags (bags made of special fabric), sand-filled gunny sacks and brick chips.
Bangladeshi MM Builders and Engineers Ltd and Indian Bhartia Infra Projects Ltd will complete the work in six months.
This sort of delays is blamed for the extra expenditure in the Tk 20,507 crore ($ 2.97 billion) Padma bridge project.
Officials of the project recently said the international firm to be selected for the construction of the bridge was supposed to prepare the two construction yards, one at Janjira and the other at Mawa.
They were supposed to spend money for their projection also. The government's responsibility was just to provide the land.
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