Dhaka, June 6 -- The Jamuna Bridge has recorded the highest-ever toll collection in a single day since its inauguration 27 years ago, with Tk 41 million collected on Thursday as more than 64,000 vehicles crossed the bridge.

Executive engineer of the Jamuna Bridge Site Office, Ahsanul Kabir Pavel, on Friday said that toll revenue reached a record Tk 4,10,40,950 [4 crore 10 lakh 40 thousand 950] in the 24 hours from 12am Wednesday (June 4) to 12am Thursday (June 5), reports UNB.

The previous highest daily toll was Tk 3 crore 80 lakh 63 thousand four hundred, collected on June 14, last year, ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha holidays.

At that time, the bridge authority had installed six additional booths, three at each end of the bridge, to cope w...