Bangladesh, Dec. 7 -- The Local Government and Engineering Department (LGED) has proposed to undertake a Tk 61 billion project for road maintenance despite separate allocations in the revenue budget for the same purpose, officials said Friday.
The Local Government Division (LGD) officials said the LGED for the first time came up with the Tk 61 billion road maintenance project proposal under the development budget which has been sent to Planning Commission (PC) for approval.
In the current fiscal year (FY) 2019-20, the government allocated Tk 24.21 billion funds in the revenue budget for repair and maintenance of the rural roads under the LGED.
Insiders and experts questioned the LGED's Tk 61 billion project proposal under the Annual Deve...