PM Tarique Rahman leaves for Bagerhat and Khulna on a day-long visit, to lay foundation of Tk 4,068 crore Mongla project

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has left Dhaka for Bagerhat and Khulna on a day-long official visit. He departed by helicopter from Tejgaon Airport at 9am on Thursday (5 November), bound for Mongla in Bagerhat.

Before that, at 8:45am, the Prime Minister left his residence on Gulshan Avenue in the capital for Tejgaon Airport.

According to the visit schedule, the Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone of a project to build two container jetties and develop ancillary infrastructure for the expansion and modernisation of Mongla Port, at a cost of Tk 4,068 crore.

In addition, a memorandum of understanding on investment cooperation between Invest Bangladesh and China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) is scheduled to be signed in Mongla in the Prime Minister's presence.

Accompanying the Prime Minister on the visit are Road Transport and Bridges, Railways and Shipping Minister Sheikh Rabiul Alam, BNP special secretary Belayet Hossain Mridha, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister A B M Abdus Sattar, Additional Press Secretary Atiqur Rahman Rumon and other relevant officials.

After completing the scheduled programmes in Mongla, the Prime Minister will visit the shrine of Hazrat Khan Jahan Ali (RA).

In the afternoon, he will join the inaugural ceremony of Notun Kuri Sports (Season-2) at Khulna District Stadium.

The Prime Minister is scheduled to return to Dhaka in the evening after the programmes conclude.