Dhaka, July 12 -- The Ministry of Science and Technology has sent a proposal to the Planning Commission to cancel the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Space Observatory project after spending Tk 62.27 million on construction.

The project was initiated four years ago to set up the facility at the intersection of the Tropic of Cancer and the 90-degree east longitude in Faridpur's Bhanga upazila.

But the ministry now wants to cancel it as the imaginary line has shifted 60 metres south, making implementation unviable under the existing cost structure.

Among the nearly two dozen ongoing projects under the ministry, the planning ministry recently received proposals to cancel three.

The two other projects are the "Establishment of Genome Se...