The government has approved an expenditure of Tk 189 crore 57 lakh 61 thousand 140 for land development for setting up a new campus of Jagannath University (JB).
This approval was given in the cabinet committee meeting on government procurement held on Thursday (March 29) under the chairmanship of Finance Minister Abul Hasan Mahmud Ali. Additional Secretary of the Cabinet Division Syed Mahbub Khan said this at the end of the meeting.
He said, in view of the proposal of the Department of Secondary and Higher Education, setting up a new campus of Jagannath University: against the five packages of the land acquisition and development project, the purchase proposal of Tk 189 crore 57 lakh 61 thousand 140 has been approved. Five different organizations got the job.
He said that under this project, including 200 acres of land, 7 acres of land purchased by the university with its own funding, this expenditure has been approved for development work.
The Additional Secretary said, in view of the proposal of the Ministry of Housing and Public Works, a work purchase proposal under the project titled ‘Chittagong City Outer Ring Road (4th Revised)’ has been approved. The total cost will be 411 crore 22 lakh 40 thousand 337 taka.
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