GovTwin / Mega-projects
Fast-track mega-projects
The government's 10 fast-track priority projects, with cost, financier, and delivery status. Figures come from the implementing agencies, the IMED, and the financing partners; where none is published the field reads n/a. Combined sourced cost: 317,282 crore BDT.
Padma Multipurpose Bridge
transport/bridge
completed · 100%
Cost 32,605 cr
Financier self-financed (Government of Bangladesh; World Bank withdrew its $1.2bn package in 2012)
Agency Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA)
Target 2022
Padma Bridge Rail Link
transport/rail
completed · 100%
Cost 39,246 cr
Financier China (Exim Bank of China loan ~$2.66bn / Tk 21,036 cr) + Government of Bangladesh (Tk 18,210 cr)
Agency Bangladesh Railway (Padma Bridge Rail Link Project)
Target 2024
Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit (Metro Rail MRT Line-6)
transport/rail
partially operational · 84%
Cost 33,472 cr
Financier JICA (~75%, ~$2.13bn) + Government of Bangladesh (~25%, ~$690m)
Agency Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL)
Target 2025
Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant
energy/nuclear
ongoing
Cost 113,092 cr
Financier Russia (90% state loan, ~$11.38bn / Tk 91,040 cr) + Government of Bangladesh (~10%, Tk 22,053 cr)
Agency Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC); EPC contractor Rosatom/ASE
Target 2026
Matarbari Coal-Fired Power Plant and Deep Sea Port
energy & port
partially operational
Cost 51,855 cr
Financier JICA (Japanese ODA loans)
Agency Coal Power Generation Company Bangladesh Ltd (CPGCBL) for power plant; Chittagong Port Authority for the port
Target 2029
Payra Sea Port
port
partially operational
Cost 5,228 cr
Financier India (line of credit, Tk 4,946 cr) + Government of Bangladesh (Tk 273 cr)
Agency Payra Port Authority (PPA)
Target 2026
Karnaphuli River Tunnel (Bangabandhu Tunnel)
transport/tunnel
completed · 100%
Cost 10,374 cr
Financier China (Exim Bank of China loan, Tk 5,913 cr / 20-yr at 2%) + Government of Bangladesh
Agency Bangladesh Bridge Authority (Govt of Bangladesh); contractor China Communications Construction Company (CCCC)
Target 2023
Dhaka-Ashulia Elevated Expressway
transport/expressway
ongoing · 68%
Cost 17,553 cr
Financier China (Exim Bank of China loan, Tk 9,692 cr) + Government of Bangladesh (Tk 7,860 cr)
Agency Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA); contractor China National Machinery Import & Export Corporation (CMC)
Target 2026
Dhaka Elevated Expressway
transport/expressway
partially operational
Cost 13,857 cr
Financier PPP: private investor consortium (~73% of main construction) + Government of Bangladesh (Viability Gap Funding ~27%)
Agency Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA)
Target 2026
Maitree Super Thermal Power Project (Rampal)
energy/coal
completed · 100%
Financier India (Exim Bank of India, ~80% debt of ~USD 1.6 bn) + 20% equity split between BPDB and NTPC
Agency Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company Ltd (BIFPCL), 50:50 JV of Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) and India's NTPC
Target 2023