The government has a plan to excavate more 178 rivers under special plan with a view to increase the river route in future. Water Resource Minis-ter Anwar Hossain Manju said this on behalf of the Shipping Minister Shahja-han Khan while responding to a query placed by treasury bench lawmaker Rahim Ullah of Feni-3 in the house in the capital yesterday.
He said the dredging program is going on to excavate 24 rivers in first phase and 12 river route is going on under 53 river route capital dredging across the country for increasing the river route.
About 1200 kilometres river route so far has been increased through excavating the river route across the country since 2008-2009 fiscal year, the minister said. The length of internal river route of the country is 6000 kilometres in rainy season and 4000 kilometres in dry season.
-BSS, Dhaka
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