No megaprojects now, go seriously for welfare-oriented ones: PM

No megaprojects now, go seriously for welfare-oriented ones: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday asked the authorities concerned to come up with small-scale, rural or public welfare-oriented projects, rather than going for megaprojects. She gave the directive while chairing the meeting of the Executive Committee of National Economic Council (Ecnec) at the NEC conference room in Sher-e Bangla Nagar of the capital. “The Prime Minister said that...

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