Dhaka, March 16 -- Despite the government's ongoing austerity measures, Dhaka WASA (DWASA) has proposed undertaking a sumptuous project, as 329.69 million alone is required to hire consultants to build its training centre, insiders reveal on Saturday.

Funded through loans from local and foreign sources, the DWASA has also included some unnecessary expenditure, including purchase of luxury jeeps and automobiles, foreign tours for its officials, high operational costs for office and expensive research equipment, they said. It has also set aside millions of takas for renting cars and purchasing fuels in addition to their proposal to buy 15 cars and motorbikes.

Analysts argue that construction of a training and research academy taking out f...