<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">Rajshahi city has become green, beautiful and enlightened at present amid massive infrastructural developments fully supported by the present government during the last couple of years.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Broaden streets, eye-catching street lighting at night, cleaned atmosphere, road dividers with green trees, plants and crafts as well as improved civic amenities have made the city attractive enormously.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) AHM Khairuzzaman Liton told BSS that an east-west connecting road has been constructed from Biman crossing to Choddopaya crossing via Chhotobangram, Meherchandi, Budhpara and Mohanpur at a cost of around Taka 189.35 crore.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">In addition to construction of footpaths on both sides of the 6.793-kilometer road, various need-based modern infrastructures, including a flyover on railway crossing, a bridge, eight culverts and median, were constructed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The newly constructed four-lane road has been playing a significant role towards mitigating the gradually mounting traffic jams in the metropolis.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mayor Liton said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has given a project worth around Taka 3,000 crore and its implementation works are progressing fast in the city for its cherished development at present.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Two potential roads are being elevated to four lanes as part of the Taka 2,993-crore project aimed at making the movement of both vehicles and people quick and smooth.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">RCC is turning the Bilsimla Railway crossing to City Hat road to 80-feet wide along with a four-foot-wide road divider with an outlay of around Taka 44.92 crore.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">On both sides of the 3.532-kilometer road, a 44-feet road, 12-feet wide drain and footpath and 20-feet road for the slow-moving vehicles are also being constructed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another dilapidated 4.17-kilometer road from Naodapara bus terminal to Bhadra Railway crossing is being elevated to a smart street.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Liton said a 2.5-kilometer road from Alupatty crossing to Talaimary crossing has been elevated to four-lane. Decorated and pedestrian-friendly footpaths have been constructed on both sides of the road with setting up colourful road lights.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Island has been beautified through transplanting decorative and ornamental flower plants.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Two midtown roads from Upashahar to Sonadighi crossing and Malopara crossing to Sagarpara crossing have been widened, costing around Taka 126.40 crore bringing an epoch-making change in terms of the city's communication.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another road from Bilsimla railway crossing to Kasiadanga crossing has been elevated to four-lane under the city's important roads development project. Side by side with the four-lane, drain, footpath and bicycle lane were constructed along the road.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Erection of butterfly road light draws the attention of the passerby in the night amazingly.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The city corporation has so far installed 1,654 decorated and eye-catching lights on 695 poles in five separate roads and streets with length of around 21 kilometers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">As a whole, the modern road lighting has brought happiness to the city dwellers and other beneficiaries.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mayor Liton said the energy saving lights at Drishtinandan are being turned on and off automatically by the auto-logic controller, adding they also have plans for bringing the newly constructed and other widened roads under the modern lighting system in the days to come.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">53.29-kilometer roads were also concretized together with construction of 36.72-kilometer drains. Carpeting on the 4.32-kilometer new road and renovation of the 1.42-kilometer road were done.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The city corporation has implemented drainage and approach road construction projects contributing a lot towards freeing the city from water-logging besides making pedestrian movement easy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Problems related to unfit and narrow sections of the present drains and its low-sewerage capacity were removed. All the culverts were widened besides removing the silts from the base of the drains to enhance the sewerage capacity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Chief Engineer Nur Islam said the physical infrastructure development were implemented for developing the overall environmental health system through building an effective and permanent water sewerage system in the city.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Professor Bidhan Chandra Das, a retired teacher at Rajshahi University, expressed his gratitude to the government, particularly Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, for extending support towards making the Rajshahi city beautiful. BSS</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>