The Roads and Highway Department and Local Government Engineering Department are the two major agencies responsible for control and management of primary and secondary road network in Bangladesh. Apart from these two major agencies, city corporations and municipalities build and maintain roads within the city and town areas. Due to the decline of aid from consortia and the inability of the Government to provide required budgetary support by way of balanced macro-economic management it has become imperative to go for privatization of roads and highways management and maintenance. In order to attract private investors, builders, and operators the entire road network should be divided into various units covering both the highly commercial roads projects and non-commercial roads like remote rural roads in order to inject potential into such roads. New investment/rehabilitation/reconstruction projects requiring fresh capital investments should be contracted out to Build Operate Own / Build Operate Transfer operators. To make such projects lucrative multimodal systems may be structured covering all other transportation systems in line with globalization for developing compatibility in the upcoming global village. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E214938.
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