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DHAKA: No corrupt firm would be awarded work order for the construction of the proposed Padma Bridge, Bridge Division Secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan categorically said Monday, trying to dispel doubts.

He was addressing a press conference in the conference room of Press Information Department (PID) at the secretariat in the wake of allegations against a Canadian company.

The government official held the press briefing on an urgent basis to protest the news reports published in different dailies on alleged corruption in the process of warding contract for Padma Bridge construction.

Allegations have it that the Canadian company, SNC-Lavalin, one of the five primarily selected firms for the construction of the multipurpose bridge, managed to stand in the primary selection through bribery.

An 11-member team from the Canadian Royal Police is now conducting investigation against SNC-Lavalin over a World Bank allegation of corruption.

Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said, “As the contractor of any package of the mega-bridge project is yet to be appointed, any allegations about issuing work order through corruption is absolutely meaningless.”

He added: “If corruption allegation against any company is proved, then there is no scope for that company to get any work order.”

In this regard, he said, “Canadian police have not yet mentioned Padma Bridge’s name in their report, although the international news media mentioned the name of the project.”

He also said, “The WB’s guideline has been followed in appointing the Construction Supervision Consultant and the whole matter was sent to the WB in June last.”

He informed that the engineer who is in-charge of the Bridges Division has just provided official support to                                      the process of appointing contractors.

The four other members of the committee are Prof Dr Zamilur Reza Chowdhury, VC of BRAC University, Dr Ainun Nishat, Dr Shafiullah from BUET and former WB employee Dr Daud Ahmed.

On the alleged corruption against SNC-Lavalin, the secretary said, “A section called Independent Integrity Department of the World Bank is responsible for conducting any such investigation if there is any allegation raised in project implementation.”

He, however, informed that the particular department has not yet launched any such investigation related to any Bangladeshi project so far.

In this regard, he also opined that the World Bank Country Director in Bangladesh never came up with any such corruption allegation.

However, the Canadian police already seized all the documents related to alleged corruption from SNC-Navalin’s Toronto office last Thursday.

World Bank Country Representative to Bangladesh Allen Goldstein in a recent statement said, “Canadian authorities have started a probe after receiving specific complaint about corruption in the tender process of Padma Bridge. Simultaneously, the World Bank itself has also started such investigation into the allegation.”

Allen Goldstein also disclosed that the World Bank is not disbursing any fund for the Padma Bridge project due to the ongoing probe.

Padma River

Padma River
Padma River in Bangladesh
Origin	Himalayas
Mouth	Bay of Bengal
Basin countries	India, Bangladesh
Location	Nawabganj, Rajshahi, Pabna, Kushtia, Faridpur, Rajbari, and Chandpur District
Length	120 kilometres (75 mi)
Avg. discharge	Annual average: 35,000 m3/s (1,200,000 cu ft/s) During monsoon season: 750,000 m3/s (26,000,000 cu ft/s) During dry season: 15,000 m3/s (530,000 cu ft/s)
River system	Ganges River System

A Map showing major rivers in Bangladesh including Padma.

The Padma (Bengali: পদ্মা Pôdda) is a major trans-boundary river in Bangladesh. It is the main distributary of the Ganges (Bengali: গঙ্গা Gôngga),^{[dubious – discuss]} which originates in the Himalayas. The Padma enters Bangladesh from India near Chapai Nababganj. It meets the Jamuna (Bengali: যমুনা Jomuna) near Aricha and retains its name, but finally meets with the Meghna (Bengali: মেঘনা) near Chandpur and adopts the name 'Meghna' before flowing into the Bay of Bengal.
Rajshahi, a major city in western Bangladesh, is situated on the north bank of the Padma. Its maximum depth is 1,571 feet (479 m) and average depth is 968 feet (295 m).

Course

Originating in the Gangotri Glacier of the Himalaya, the Ganges runs to the Bay of Bengal through India, entering Bangladesh at Shibganj in the district of Chapai Nababganj. Just west of Shibganj, the distributary Bhagirathi emerges and flows southwards as the Hooghly. After the point where the Bhagirathi branches off, the Ganges is officially referred to as the Padma and the river Bhagirathi is known as the Ganga. Later the British started calling it the Hoogly river.

Spritsailed boat on Padma River

Further downstream, in Goalando, 2200 km away from the source, the Padma is joined by the mighty Jamuna (Lower Brahmaputra) and the resulting combination flows with the name Padma further east, to Chandpur. Here, the widest river in Bangladesh, the Meghna, joins the Padma, continuing as the Meghna almost in a straight line to the south, ending in the Bay of Bengal.

Mythology

River Padma in Rainy Season

The Padma (Sanskrit for lotus flower is mentioned numerous times in Hindu Mythology including the Vedas, the Puranas,the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.^{[citation needed]} In all the epic stories, the river is mentioned as byname for the Goddess Lakshmi though the origin differs.

Damming

After building of Farakka Barrage on the upstream of the river in Indian West Bengal the capacity of the river was reduced significantly.

Bridge

A road-rail bridge was proposed in 2009.
Padma bridge is the largest bridge of Bangladesh(proposed). It will cost ৳30 Billion (30,000,000,000 taka)to finish. It should be open to the public in 2013. World Bank cancelled US $ 1.2 Billion Loan to construct this bridge, putting a big question mark on the future of the bridge.

Early History

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Pabna District

The Padma forms the whole of the southern boundary of the district for a distance of about 90 miles. The name Padma is given to the lower part of the course of the Ganges below the point of the off-take of the Bhagirathi (India). Padma had, most probably, flown through a number of channels at different times. Some authors contend that each distributary of the Ganges in its deltaic part is a remnant of an old channel and that starting from the western-most one, the Bhagirathi (in West Bengal, India) each distributary of the east marks a position of a newar channel than the one to the west of it.
It would be worthwhile to mention here the views of Rennell, who referred to a course of the Ganges in the north of its present channel. "Appearances favour very strongly" says Rennell, "that the Ganges had its former bed in the tract now occupied by the lakes and morasses between Natore and Jaffargunge, striking out of the present course by Dhaka to a junction of Brahmapooter or Meghna near Fringybazar, where accumulation of two such mighty streams probably scooped out the present amazing bed of the Meghna". The places mentioned by Rennell proceeding from west to east are Rampur Boali, the headquarters of Rajshahi district, Puthia and Natore in the same district and Jaffarganj in the district of Dhaka. The place last named were shown in a map of the Mymensingh district dated 1861, as a thana headquarters. about 6 miles south-east of Bera Police Station. It is now known as Payla Jaffarganj and is close to Elachipur opposite Goalunda. According to Rennell's theory, therefore, the probable former course of the Ganges would correspond with that of the present channel of the Baral.
Although conclusive proofs of what has been stated above are lacking, authorities more or less agree that the Ganges has changed its course and that in different times, each Or the distributary might have been the carrier of its main stream.
The bed of the Padma is wide, and the river is split up into several channels flowing between constantly shifting sand banks and islands. During the rains the current is very strong and even steamers may find difficult in making headway against it. It is navigable at all seasons of the year by steamers and country boats of all sizes and until recently ranked as one the most frequented waterways in the world. It is spanned near Paksey by the great Hardinge Bridge over which runs one of the main lines of the Bangladesh Railway.

Kushtia District

The mighty Padma (the portion of the Ganges between its junctions with Bhagirathi and Brahmaputra also known as the lower Ganges), touches the district at its most northerly corner, at the point where it throws off the Jalangi, and flows along the northern border in a direction slightly south-east, until it leaves the district some miles to the east of Kushtia. It carries immense volumes of water and is very wide at places, constantly shifting its main channel eroding vast areas on one bank throwing chars on the other giving rise to many disputes as to the possession of the chars and islands which are thrown up. From: Wikipidia

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