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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 ...

Rajshahi’s First Shaheed Minar

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In the immediate aftermath of February 21, 1952, residents of Rajshahi went to work and built a Shaheed Minar near the Muslim Hostel premises of Rajshahi Government College. The Shaheed Minar still stands today, though not with as much prestige as Dhaka's Central Shaheed Minar is afforded. In fact, the entirety of Rajshahi city doesn't have a Central Shaheed Minar, which means on the International Mother Language Day, people pay homage to the martyrs at the ones at Bhubanmohan Park Memorial and the court area. In light of this, Language Movement veterans started demanding the preservation of the Muslim Hostel Shaheed Minar, which led Rajshahi City Corporation to take up a project in this regard in October 2018. One Sabera Enterprise was tasked with the construction works, which were slated to be completed by June 2020. But four-and-a-half years have passed by and the project is yet to finish. According to RCC, the work was estimated to cost Tk 50 lakh, which was later revised m...