PAD - LGED

Annex 2: Detailed Project Description
Bangladesh: Second Rural Transport Improvement Project (P123828)
1. The project rationale is to scale up and expand the accomplishments in rural roads
infrastructure development under the recently completed RTIP-I. This includes expanding the
project’s scope to improvements in inland water transportation and the introduction of
performance based maintenance (routine and periodic) contracts for rural roads. The standard
engineering design guidelines and specifications for each of the civil works components have
been prepared and are available as part of the final project preparation report. The outline design
summary for each component included in Annex 9 guide the preparation of detailed designs
during implementation to be included in the BoQs part of the bidding documents. The works on
the RPM roads will begin in the first year and then continued through the subsequent years.
Therefore, RTIP-II consists of the following components:
A. Accessibility Improvement Component (US$338.1 million): Component A will
comprise five sub-components:
(i)
Sub-Component A1: Rural Road Improvement (US$145.8 million):
2. Under this sub-component, the project will finance improvement of about 750 km of
Upazila roads and about 500 km of Union roads in 26 districts through upgrading earthen roads
to paved roads standard. The engineering design will be audited to ensure incorporation of
appropriate road safety features. The sub-component will include land acquisition (only for
Upazila roads) and compensation of persons affected by the project, environmental mitigation
measures, road safety and activities by women’s groups. Upazila and Union roads were selected
using a multi-criteria methodology. Land acquisition and resettlement costs will be financed by
GoB counterpart funding.
(ii)
Sub Component A2: Rural Road Maintenance (US$167.0 million):
3. (a) Rehabilitation and Periodic Maintenance (US$153.0 million): This subcomponent
will finance the rehabilitation and periodic maintenance of about 3,550 km of roads.
The works do not require land acquisition as the works are to be executed on the existing roads
alignment. The sub-component will include environmental mitigation measures, road safety
measures and activities by women’s groups. Roads to be included in the periodic maintenance
sub-component will be eligible if they have drainage gaps less than six meters. For rehabilitation
works, drainage structures will be limited to 30 m. The first-year program has been identified
and agreed with the World Bank, and LGED is initiating the preparation of bidding documents.
The first-year program includes about 900 km of roads.
4. (b) Performance-Based Maintenance Contracts (US$14.0 million): Under this
sub component, LGED will also promote routine and periodic maintenance, emergency repairs,
etc., through the Performance Based Maintenance Contracting (PBMC) by replicating DANIDA
pilot on about 450 km of roads in ten districts during the five-year period of the contracts.
Initially in phase-1 about 120 km of roads will be taken up under PBMC contracts in four
districts of the project. These contracts do not pay the contractors based on inputs and activities
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