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The railways ministry has reconstituted a committee investigating a South Korean company for violating some clauses of the contract under which 10 locomotives have been supplied to the Bangladesh Railway. The changes in the probe committee came more than three months after Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan ordered the formation of the committee, which was supposed to complete the work within 15 working days. In the meantime, the locomotives have been lying idle at a railways workshop in Chattogram s Pahartoli for around five months, at a time when the BR is struggling to run its operation with a big number of outdated engines. ....
A South Korean company has supplied 10 locomotives to Bangladesh Railway allegedly violating some clauses of the contract, creating an impasse over the official handover of the train engines. The locomotives have been lying idle at a railways workshop in Chattogram s Pahartoli for the last four months. It has happened when the BR is struggling to run its operation with a huge number of outdated engines. The metre-gauge diesel electric locomotives bought under a project worth around Tk 300 crore arrived at the workshop after they were unloaded at the Chattogram port early September. Later in its report, a commissioning committee said the technical specifications of three capital components of the supplied locomotives did not match the specifications mentioned in the agreement. ....