On the Consumer Cost of Dhaka Metro Rail
Kallol Mustafa’s recent opinion piece in The Daily Star (May 04, 2026) raises a legitimate and important concern: the abnormally high per-kilometre construction costs of Dhaka’s metro rail projects financed by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The core argument, that restrictive procurement conditions effectively create a captive market for Japanese contractors, is empirically grounded…
