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Construction begins for Rajshahi’s first Central Shaheed Minar

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The Rajshahi Zilla Parishad has begun constructing the city's first Central Shaheed Minar on its own land in Sonadighi area. The parishad's chairman Mir Iqbal formally inaugurated the construction work today. The construction is slated to be completed at less than half of the cost estimated by Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) earlier for the project, reports our Rajshahi correspondent. The one-acre land of the construction site earlier housed Rajshahi Survey Institute. In 2020, after the institute vacated the site, the RCC initiated the process of constructing the Central Shaheed Minar. On December 16, 2020, Language Movement veteran late Ghulam Arieff Tipoo laid the foundation stone. RCC floated a tender for the project in November 2022, and later approved a contractor to begin the construction in January 2023 at an estimated cost of Tk 16 lakh. The zilla parishad then intercepted the works and lodged a complaint with the Local Government Division claiming that the RCC has no ...