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Bangladesh: Making rural infrastructure resilient

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Bangladesh should make its rural infrastructures such as roads, bridges, schools, hospitals as well as houses resilient to make them durable and safe so that they can help sustain economic growth.

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Khan Mahmud Amanat, a professor of the civil engineering department at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, said currently Bangladesh does not face dearth of quality raw materials as local companies can produce high-quality key construction ingredients.

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There are steel and cement manufacturers who maintain global standards and follow all the processes to maintain quality. But infrastructure projects are not up to par because of bad construction practices by contractors and masons. Their lack of skills is responsible for it.

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According to Prof Tarek, earthquakes are becoming frequent. So, if structures are built using brick walls instead of reinforced concrete columns, then they would be highly susceptible to the impacts of earthquakes. There has to be a minimum number of columns so that the structures can move in case of earthquakes, instead of caving in.

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Themes Critical infrastructure
Country and region Bangladesh
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