Twelve years after start of the project work, a five-kilometre bypass road across Kuizuri union on the outskirts of Faridpur town has remained incomplete mainly due to fund constraints.To ease traffic congestion on a ten-kilometre busy road passing through the town and shorten journey time on Dhaka-Barisal route, Roads and Highways Department (RHD) of Faridpur started work for construction of the bypass road from Rajbari Road crossing to Munshir Bazar in 1997. The Tk 7 crore 20 lakh project was scheduled to complete within two years.But over Tk 13 crore has already been spent for land acquisition, soil work, brick pavement, and construction of three box culverts while the rest of the work for the bypass road has remained suspended as budget for the project is too inadequate to meet the expenditure, RHD sources said. “Recently we have got Tk 20 lakh as fresh allocation for the project and we will resume the work immediately. But around Tk 14 crore will be required to complete rest of the work for completion of the road,” Bulbul Hossain, executive engineer of Faridpur RHD, said. Meanwhile, there are allegations that a few contractors of the project did not get full payment for their work under the contact.During a recent visit to the area, this correspondent saw that three culverts were constructed and around four km of the proposed road was covered with bricks in last 12 years.Several places of the road are badly damaged, showing signs of negligence about the important bypass road.In absence of a bypass road, a large number of vehicles from other districts use the 10km road touching Rajbari Road crossing, heliport, Rab camp, new bus stand, Goalchamat No-1 Sarak crossing, Khodabox Road, Sreeangayan, Luxury Hotel, New Elish Chattar, old bus stand, Faridpur Medical College Hospital, River Research Institute and Munshir Bazar in Faridpur town, making the road congested and vulnerable to accidents.
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