It costs 30 to 40 thousand taka as a freight for 20 or 40 feet container from Chittagong to Dhaka on a track by road. When it is transported by train it costs only 10 thousand taka and by feeder vessel upto Pangao (Narayangang) Inland Container Depot (ICD) it will cost only 3000 taka. What a huge difference in freight and impact on cost base of any consumable imported or transported on our rickety and dangerous highway that kills everyday. Riverine route to Buriganga were there hundreds of years ago, but not today. We are very fortunate that East India Company built the rail road, 37 years of our freedom, otherwise, we couldn't have built a 37 kilometer of rail line. Ayub Khan given us monumental structure, 37 years on nothing matches with any of those other than the tall talk. And Dictator Ershad built the national highway. Today the Democratic and nationalist governments, instead of building new infrastructure rather leasing out to the foreigners with the plea that that will create job and revenue or foreign investment. If they really meant 'jobs and revenue' they would have upgraded the Dhaka Chittagong rail track (rather the whole network of rail road) to improve the economic efficiency or implement the riverine routes to facilitate the cheaper business. It is common sense that these could have brought in much needed jobs and businesses than so called Asian highway which is nothing but facilitating India's access further -as we already have network with them. But who is going to tell the Prime Minister, she herself is pledge bound and all others have a job to be maintained for the country, they will sing another song.
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