Elevated Expressway: 1st part to be completed by June

Staff Correspondent: Road Transport Minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said that the first phase of Dhaka Elevated Expressway of the public–private partnership (PPP) project from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to the Banani Railway Station will be completed by June this year.

He also said the second phase (from Banani Rail Station to Mogbazar rail crossing) of the construction work is expected to be finished in July next year.

In the third phase, the expressway will connect Mogbazar railway crossing to Kutubkhali of Dhaka-Chattogram Highway. It will be finished by September 2021, he told reporters after visiting the project site at Kawla, adjacent to Dhaka airport.

He claimed 50 percent work of the first phase is complete, while the overall progress of the project is 20 percent.

The 20km Dhaka Elevated Expressway has a budget of Tk8,940.18 crores. It will start from Shahjalal Airport and end at Kutubkhali on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway via Kuril-Banani-Mohakhali-Tejgaon-Magbazar-Kamalapur-Sayedabad-Jatrabari.

PPP Project Director AHM Shakhawat Akhtar, Sakasith Swanagar, manager of Italian Thai Development Public Company Limited and other officials were present during the project visit.


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