The Asian Development Bank has proposed a Tk 4,200 crore project to modernise and enhance the production capacity of the country鈥檚 largest Saidpur Railway Workshop.
To assess the financial feasibility of proposed project, a delegation from the ADB has visited the workshop on Tuesday. The team inspected various operations and infrastructures of the workshop.
SM Jakaria Huq, additional secretary and chief of the ADB wing at the Economic Relations Division, and Hoe Yun Jeong, country director of ADB led the delegation.
The delegation visited key facilities, including the bogie and wagon workshop and the carriage construction workshop before holding a discussion meeting.
Divisional superintendent of Saidpur Railway Workshop Shah Sufi Nur Mohammad and works manager Mamtazul Haque presented an overview of the workshop鈥檚 operations and proposed development plan.
Nur Mohammad said that the ADB delegation came to assess the financial feasibility of the proposed Tk 4,200 crore project aimed at expanding and modernising the two sub-workshops and enhancing production capacity.
鈥楾he team expressed satisfaction with our proposal and assured us of taking prompt action,鈥� he said, adding that once implemented, this project would bring about an epoch making improvement in the production capacity and infrastructures of the Saidpur Railway Workshop.
