Final Sixth Five-year Plan by June: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday said her government has proposed 127 projects of around Tk 43,500 crore in the sixth five-year plan to revamp the country's railway by expanding its network and purchasing huge number of passenger coaches.
In response to lawmakers' queries in the parliament, she said the sixth five-year plan (2011-2015) will be finalised by June this year and the seventh five-year plan (2015-2020) will be prepared then.
Under the sixth five-year plan, the premier said, different development projects will be implemented to renovate the railway's domestic, regional, and international networks. New 689-kilometre rail-tracks will be constructed under this five-year plan, she said.
She added that rehabilitation works of railways will be completed by 2012 and purchasing of 130 locomotives, 539 cars, and 500 tanks and flat wagons will be completed by 2013.
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