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Bangladesh Economic Review 2017
CHAPTER 11
TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION
Transport and communication system as an essential physical infrastructure plays an
important role in socio-economic development of the country. It is very much necessary to
make a developed and efficient transport and communication system compatible with
international, national and regional road network. Considered this view, Padma Bridge,
Metro-rail, Dhaka Elevated Express way and some other mega-projects are being
implemented. To operate Railway as an environment-friendly, safe, affordable and
dependable means of transport and to gain commercial and financial success, professional
knowledge based organisational reforms and sector improvement are being implemented.
Several measures have already been undertaken for dredging of dying river ways,
development and maintenance of navigability of different river routes, ensuring safe
movement of water crafts, development of inland river ports, creating infrastructure facilities
to carry container goods in inland waterways etc. With limited resources Biman Bangladesh
Airlines Limited is conducting international and national flights in different routes. To
modernise, develop and expand the country's telecommunications system, various measures
have been undertaken by the government. Keeping consistency with the targets of Vision-
2021, SDG and Seventh Five Year Plan, the Government has undertaken various initiatives to
expand information technology. Various development projects and programmes are in
progress to ensure the use and application of information and communication technology by
increasing digital literacy at all walks of life, extend public service through IT-based
activities and, finally, build a modern and developed Bangladesh through the introduction of
e-governance and e-commerce.
Transport and communication system is a 21,302.08 km, of which 18,202.06 km is
vital physical infrastructure for the socio paved, under the management of Roads and
economic development of a country. Highways Department. Out of the total road
According to the final estimate of Bangladesh network under this Department, 3812.78 km
Bureau of Statistics (BBS) the contribution of is National Highway (17.90%), 4,246.97 km
the transport and communication sector to Regional Highway (19.94%) and remaining
GDP was 11.26 percent and the rate of 13,242.30 km is Zila roads (62.16%).
growth was 6.76 percent during FY2016-17. Besides, RHD has 4,507 bridges and 13,751
In context of globalisation and the market culverts under its control. Moreover, RHD
economy involvement with regional and has currently been operating about 124 ferry
international transport international boats in 41 ferry Ghats on its road network
networking is crucial for Bangladesh. throughout the country. It may be mentioned
here that the length of road network under
Roads Communication RHD did not increase during last couple of
Roads and Highways Department (RHD) years. But the quality of different important
The total length of road in the country is road segments has been significantly
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improved through carrying out development/ a ten year time series data on RHD road
improvement works of various standards as lengths since 2008.
per requirement. The following table provides
Table 11.1: Various Categories of Roads under Roads and Highways Department
(Kilometer)
Year National Highway Regional Highway Zilla Road Total
2008 3570 4323 13678 21571
2009 3477 4165 13248 20890
2010 3478 4222 13248 20948
2011 3492 4268 13280 21040
2012 3538 4276 13458 21272
2013 3570 4323 13678 21571
2014 3544 4278 13659 21481
2015 3813 4247 13242 21302
2016 3813 4247 13242 21302
2017 3813 4247 13242 21302
Source: Roads and Highways Department; Ministry of Road, Transport and Bridges.
Moreover, the Government has taken Construction of Dhaka Circular Road with
necessary initiatives to implement 6 road and provision of service lanes: 2nd phase
bridge projects by public private partnership Improve to 4 Lane Highway (Abdullahpur-
arrangement. The procedure of selecting Dhour- Birulia- Gabtoli- Babubazar
investors is underway of the following Fatullah- Chashara - Signboard, 67
projects: kilometer).
Construction of Dhaka- Chittagong The draft of ‘Road Transport Act, 2017’ has
Expressway been approved on 27 March 2017 by the
Upgrading of Madanpur- Bhulta- Cabinet in order to replace the ‘Motor
Debogram- Joydevpur to 4 Lane (Dhaka Vehicle Ordinance 1983’ with a modern and
Bypass) up-to-date one. Meanwhile, the ‘Road Fund
Hatirjheel-Rampura-Banosree Ideal School Board Act, 2013’ has been approved by the
and Collage Shieker Jayga-Amulia-Demra Government to ensure proper and continuous
Highway (Chittagong Road Mour and supply of fund for road repairing and
Tarabo Link Road). maintenance. The ‘Bus Rapid Transit Law’ is
also underway.
Other projects under RHD are:
Improvement of Gabtoli-Nabinagar A flawless road design is being implemented
Highway to Expressway with provision of through identifying the accident black spots
service lanes on the National Highways. The intensity of
road accident has been reduced due to proper
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maintenance of road and straightening of road projects/programmers for the development of
alignment. The ‘Improvement of Black Spots rural and urban infrastructures of the country.
in National Highways’ for the treatment of Since its inception up to FY2016-17, LGED
121 black spots at an estimated cost of so far developed 1,07,910 km upazila, union
Tk.168.05 crore has been completed during and rural roads, constructed 1,335,174 meters
FY2016-17. Besides, a vast programme for bridges/culverts and planted trees along
safety on road through overload control by 24,839 km of those roads. Moreover, as many
means of installing weigh-bridge at each as 2,041 growth centers, 2,059 rural bazars
important traffic origination point, signing have been developed and 3,150 Union
and signaling of roads etc. is under Parishad Complex buildings have been
implementation for long time. constructed during the period.
The following table depicts achievements in
Local Government Engineering Transport Infrastructure under various
Department (LGED) development projects of Local Government
Local Government Engineering Department Engineering Department up to FY2016-17
(LGED) has been implementing a number of since its inception.
Table 11.2: Achievement in Transport Infrastructure Development under LGED
Component Financial Year Total
Cumulative 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 (Cumulative
up to June Up to
2007 June 2017)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Earthen 64691 - - - - - - - - - - 64691
Road (km)
Paved Road 57908 3993 3277 4023 4614 4905 6639 6548 5990 4813 5200 107910
(km)
Bridge/ 1038355 30020 33800 29363 38502 26415 27057 32707 24455 28500 29000 1335174
Cuvert (m)
Source: LGED.
Since 2009, LGED removed water-logging infrastructures in urban area covering
from 6,34,901 hectors along with the improvement of 845 km roads, 776 meters
increasing water preservation capacity, bridges/culverts and construction of 120 km
irrigation facilities and irrigable areas by drains.
implementing 436 sub projects under small To liberate the traffic jam of Dhaka City this
scale water resources development organisation takes initiative to build two
programmes. Besides, that 23 rubber dams on flyovers. The progress of 8.70 km length
perennial rivers were constructed. In FY2016- Flyover under Mogbazar-Mouchack Flyover
17, LGED has implemented 27 development Development Project is about 95 percent and
projects for the development of
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620 meters Khilgoan Flyover Loop has been Following measures have been taken to
completed in January 2016. enhance standard of service, prevent
Bangladesh Road Transport Authority environment pollution and reduce traffic jam
(BRTA) during FY2016-17:
Draft of National Road Safety Action
Bangladesh Road Transport Authority Plan, 2017-2020 has been prepared
(BRTA) has been entrusted with the task of To reduce road accident and enhancing
ensuring overall supervision, proper road safety consciousness, a total of
management and effective control with a 52,670 professional drivers have been
view to bring about discipline in the road provided training.
transport sector since its inception in 1988. Legal actions have been taken against
This organisation is responsible for issuing black smoke emitting defective vehicles
registration and fitness certificates of vehicles through mobile courts to control vehicular
as well as executing other regulatory pollution
activities as per Motor Vehicles Ordinance Up to June 2017 a total of 4,28,308 sets
1983. In FY2015-16, BRTA collected Retro Reflective Number Plates and radio
revenues Tk.1,619 crore against the target of Frequency Identification (RFID) tags
Tk.1,354 crore, that is 119.57 percent of the have been produced and 3,97,055 sets of
target. In FY2016-17, BRTA released the same have been affixed to various
Tk.1,469 crore against the target of Tk.1,771 vehicles. Production and affixing
crore. The figures of target and actual activates of Retro Reflective Number
collection of revenues from the FY2008-09 to Plates and RFID tags have been
FY2016-17 are given below: continuing
In FY2016-17 a total of 3,77,802 chip-
Table 11.3: Revenue Target and Collection based electronic smart Card Driving
of BRTA License have been produced and
(In crore Taka) distributed
Fiscal Target Collection Percentage In FY2016-17 a total of 4,77,205 Chip-
year Amount of Collection based Electronic Digital Registration
(%) Certificate (DRC) have been produced
2008-09 550 646 117.59 and 3,12,592 DRC was distributed
2009-10 660 642 97.35
2010-11 870 685 78.76 Collection of MV taxes and fees through
2011-12 903 642 71.09 online banking system is continuing
2012-13 1101 769 69.91 A modern central Data Center has been
2013-14 1156 952 82.33
2014-15 1249 1062 85.04 established for preserving different
2015-16 1354 1619 119.57 vehicle and driving license data with
2016-17 1771 1469 82.95 safety and security
Source: BRTA
Processing registration and issuing tax
token, fitness, fitness certificate, route
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