Smart City in Bangladesh
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PPP Including Singapore for "Green and Smart" Purbachal City, Having Oown Power Production and Supply System and Utility Services, by 2019
The government has planned to build a "green and smart" Purbachal city, having own power production and supply system and utility services, by 2019.
Singapore Cooperation Enterprise, a Singapore-based company, has shown interest in investing in the project to be implemented under public private partnership (PPP) programme.
The Bangladesh government has already given the company the go-ahead to invest in the project which will be implemented under the ‘Build, Own, Operate and Transfer (BOOT) system.
"Bangladesh wants to complete the construction work of smart Purbachal city by 2019 as it was taken 19 years ago," Housing and Public Works Minister Mosharraf Hossain told reporters yesterday after a meeting with visiting Singapore Senior Minister of State for Foreign and Home Affairs Masagos Zulkifli Bin Masagos Mohamad.
"The Singapore government wants to invest in the project. Bangladesh is now scrutinising the draft of a memorandum of understanding which will be signed with Singapore soon after consulting with the officials concerned," he said.
Earlier, Masagos Zulkifli made the same proposal on behalf of the entrepreneurs during a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office on Tuesday.
"Singapore wants to set up a power plant in Bangladesh and build a modern city near Purbachal," Prime Minister's Press Secretary AKM Shamim Chowdhury told reporters after the meeting. "The Singaporean entrepreneurs want to take up the project either on their own or as a joint venture."
Mosharraf Hossain told reporters, "The Purbachal city will be built as a satellite city with all civic amenities. It will be a separate city from Dhaka. The construction work will be completed by 2019 during the present government's tenure."
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