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November 10, 2023

Paragraph Writing : Karnaphuli Tunnel

The country’s first tunnel, named after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, built under the Karnaphuli river opens On Saturday 28 October 2023, ushering in a new era in road communication. In terms of connecting two regions of the country, the 3.32km tunnel is the second “dream scheme” in road transport sector after the Padma Bridge. The tunnel has been built following the “one city two towns” model like Shanghai in China. The tunnel connects the Chattogram port city on the north end of the Karnaphuli with Anwara upazila on the south of the river. Economists and businesspeople say the tunnel will be a game changer in turning Chattogram into a logistic hub by connecting two major economic corridors on its two sides, including Dhaka-Chattogram and Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highways. The tunnel is expected to save time and money in the transport of raw materials and manufactured goods used and produced in various industries in the country’s largest economic zone. This zone houses Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Shilpa Nagar in Mirsharai, Korean EPZ in Karnaphuli upazila, China Industrial Zone in Anwara upazila and Cox’s Bazar Coal Power Plant. This tunnel will save time and money,
and expediate the industrialization in the area. According to a survey conducted in 2013 before the construction began, an average of 28,305 vehicles will use the tunnel every day by 2025, at least 37,946 vehicles by 2030 and 162,000 vehicles by 2067.Overall, the tunnel will increase the gross domestic product of the country by 0.166 percent. Karnaphuli Tunnel officially known as Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel is an underwater expressway tunnel in the port city of Chittagong, Bangladesh under the Karnaphuli river. The length of the entire route is 9.39 kilometers (5.83 mi), with the tunnel making up 3.43 kilometers (2.13 mi) of the length. The tunnel diameter is 10.80 meters (35.4 ft). It is expected, over 17,000 vehicles will be able to use this tunnel daily. The cost of the project is estimated at US$1.1B, of which around half is financed by the Exim Bank of China. The Karnaphuli Tunnel is the first underwater road tunnel in South Asia. It is expected to improve the Dhaka—Chittagong—Cox’s Bazar highway network. A Chinese company, China Communications Construction Company, was selected to construct it. The tunnel segments were produced in Zhenjiang, China. On October 14, 2016, Bangladesh Prime Minister and Chinese President Xi Jinping laid the foundation stone of the project. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping inaugurated the construction site of the Karnaphuli Tunnel on 14 October 2017. Hasina officially inaugurated the construction of the tunnel and inaugurated the tunnel boring phase on February 24, 2019. On Saturday 28 October 2023, Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the Karnaphuli Tunnel and was made available for traffic from 6 a.m. the next day.

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Md. Aktar Uzzaman
B.sc, M.sc in Mathematics