6 rules to be HAPPY: Free your heart from hatred; Free your mind from worries; Live simply; Expect less; Give more Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday afternoon will inaugurate a 750-metre bridge over the Teesta river connecting the Lalmonirhat-Kurigram-Rangpur highway. She is also scheduled to address a gathering in the Collectorate Ground afterwards, according to Publicity Secretary of the district unit of Awami League Jahurul Haque Mamun. "Preparations to make the gathering a success have been completed," he added. Awami League chief Hasina had laid the foundation stone for the bridge first time in July 2001 during her previous tenure as the Prime Minister. Later, after the BNP-Jamaat-e-Islami-led Four-Party Alliance government took the reins, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, the then Prime Minister, laid the stone a second time in Aug 2006. The contractor had been given three years, but the Tk 1.22-billion bridge is going see the inauguration after six years of laying of the foundation stone the second time. The Teesta Bridge and the adjacent areas have been decorated colourfully for the occasion and to welcome the Prime Minister. Awami League supporters have set up many gates on the Rangpur-Kurigram-Lalmonirhat Highway – the way through which Hasina pass. She is likely to inaugurate a building of the Lalmonirhat Diabetic Society, Primary Teachers' Training Institute Bhaban and developed part of an 85-metre-long Lalmonirhat-Burimari railway track. She will also lay stones for Lalmonirhat Nursing Institute Bhaban, an 85-metre-long girder on the Gangachara-Burirhat-Mahipur-Kailashganj-Shankardaha-Kakina road, the Second Teesta bridge and the Second Dharla bridge. State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Motahar Hossain will preside over the programme in the Collectorate Ground at 3pm. On Sep 6, Communication Minister Obaidul Quader had visited the site of the bridge. The 800-metre-long bridge will establish direct road link between Rangpur and Lalmonirhat, and Kurigram, according to a Communication Ministry press release.