Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today stated her government would construct Dhaka a smart city as she opened the Kalshi Flyover and a six-lane road from ECB square to Kalshi to the site visitors at Mirpur here.”We will construct Dhaka as a Smart City,” she said while addressing a public rally at Kalshi Balur Math right here after commencing the flyover and the avenue unveiling a plaque.
The PM promises to make Dhaka a smart city
The prime minister stated her authorities has taken plan maintaining people’s welfare in mind.At the rally, she additionally introduced to rename the Kalshi flyover after Harun Mollah due to his glorious contribution to the Liberation War and all the democratic and revolutionary moves of the country.The principal trouble of Dhaka metropolis is no longer to have better connectivity between its East and West, the most beneficial said, including her government has attached priority to the improvement of conversation gadget in this element of the capital.
She said this 2.34km Kalshi flyover and 3.70 km widened and developed six-lane street from the ECB square would ease the conversation in Mirpur, DOHS, Pallabi, Kalshi, Mahakhali, Manikdi, Matikata, Bhashantek, Banani, Uttara and the Airport.The traffic jam of Dhaka might decline considerably after opening the Kalshi Flyover and the six-lane avenue following the metro rail, she hoped.
About measures taken for the improvement of Dhaka North City, Sheikh Hasina said as many as 23 projects concerning TK 3,500 crore have been applied in the ultimate 12 years on account that Dhaka town turned into divided into two elements in 2011.
She said sixteen tasks really worth over Tk 3000 crore have additionally been carried out in Dhaka South City Corporation over the years.She cited that beneath the projects, improvement of verbal exchange and infrastructures in the capital along with its beautification, development of water deliver management, production and improvement of footpath and waste control along roads, bridges and flyovers had been made.
At the function, the high minister has announced to construct Kalshi Balur Math as an entertainment park with having playground for the youngsters and youths and walkways for the movement of the aged persons.Sheikh Hasina, also President of the Awami League, stated her authorities would make the democracy bolstered and well-protected and hence build the fate of the people.Referring to vote rigging with the aid of the BNP-Jamaat alliance in February 15, 1996 election, she stated the humans of the usa dislodged them from the power within one and a half of month.
“The people of the country never accepted those who got here to electricity through vote rigging,” she said.The top minister said the BNP-Jamaat clique desired to control election through vote rigging after incorporating 1.23 crore faux votes in 2006, but the human beings compelled them to forestall it via the movement.After the rally, she took Kalshi flyover to attain her reliable Ganabhaban house in city.
The ECNEC on Jan 9, 2018 authorized the project, below which, a 3.70 km stretch of street from the ECB rectangular to Kalshi became widened, while the 2.34 km lengthy Kalshi flyover became constructed at the Kalshi intersection beneath the Local Government Division of the Ministry of LGRD and Cooperatives.
The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Bangladesh Army (24 Engineer Construction Brigade) carried out the assignment at a cost of round Taka 1,012 crore.The production work of the challenge started on January in 2018 and it was completed four months previous to the stipulated time in June, 2023.According to the venture details, the flyover appears like an English alphabet ‘Y’. The previously four lane roads have been widened to six lanes to ease passenger commute.
The predominant four-lane flyover runs from ECB rectangular toward Kalshi and Mirpur DOHS, while a two-lane ramp descends from Kalshi intersection to Kalshi Road.The project also consists of extension of a PC girder bridge, construction of foot over-bridges, a public toilet, police boxes, a 7.40 kilometer RCC drain and saucer drain, a 1755 meter RCC pipe drain, preserving wall, 3383 meter communique duct, 800000 linear meter sand compaction pile, separate bicycle lanes, and six bus bays.
At least overhead footbridges with escalators have been constructed subsequent to the flyover.LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Md Tazul Islam, DNCC Mayor Md Atiqul Islam, Chief of Army Staff General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed and Dhaka-16 lawmaker Md Elias Uddin Mollah spoke at the rally.State Minister for LGRD and Cooperatives Swapan Bhattacharjee, and Local Government Division Secretary Muhammad Ibrahim, had been gift on the dais.
Commander of 24 Engineer Construction Brigade gave a brief presentation on the Kalshi Flyover and the six-lane road.A video documentary on the Kalshi flyover and street task was additionally screened at the function.
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