Dhaka, March 4 -- Bangladesh will place four project proposals - two on subways and another two on bridges - to Japanese investors under the public-private partnership (PPP) arrangements as the next joint-platform meeting is set to begin in Tokyo on March 11.

The subway projects are Subway O and Subway B. The others are the Bhola-Barishal bridge over the Kalabadar River and the Shariatpur-Chandpur bridge over the Meghna River.

Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA), which conducted the feasibility study on constructing subways in the city, earlier placed two other subway project proposals at the last joint platform meeting considering Japan is providing all kinds of support for Dhaka's three mass rapid transit (MRT) lines. But no investor sh...