Approval to the projects was given at a meeting held in the NEC conference room at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar with Prime Minister Khaleda Zia in the chair.

The projects are introducing digital technology in the Bangladesh Film Development Corporation, setting up eight new youth-training centres, out of 18, in the first phase, upgrading the 50-bed Cancer Research Institute and Hospital to 150-bed in the first phase, and cultivation, preservation and distribution of quality seeds by the farmers in the second phase under the Ministry of Agriculture.

Other projects include creating employment opportunity for char (shoal) people under Rural Development and Co-operatives Department, gas supply to Bogra town, modernisation of signalling and inter-locking system of 10 railway stations in Akhaura-Sylhet section, collecting 30 GMG air-conditioned passenger trains and Bakerganj-Padrishibpur-Kanthaltoli-Subidkhali-Chandukhali-Barguna road development project.

The ECNEC meeting also endorsed the summery of 3rd Buriganga, 2nd Shitalakhya and Teesta Bridge construction projects, funded by Kuwait.