PM to open Mirpur-Kalshi flyover today

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the 2.34km Mirpur-Kalshi flyover for vehicular movement at a function at Kalshi intersection adjoining Balur ground in the city at 10:00am today.

LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Tazul Islam, Dhaka North City Mayor Atiqul Islam, Chief of Army Staff General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed, Dhaka-16 lawmaker Md Elias Uddin Mollah, Local Government Division Secretary Muhammad Ibrahim are expected to join the inaugural ceremony, among others.

Under the Road Widening and Development from ECB Square to Mirpur and Construction of Flyover on Kalshi Circle Project, the 2,335-metre-long flyover has been built and a 3.70km stretch of road from the ECB Square to Kalshi has been widened.

On January 9, 2018, the project got the ECNEC’s approval.

DNCC and Bangladesh Army (24th Engineer Construction Brigade) implemented the project at a cost of around Tk 1,012 crore.

According to the project details, the flyover looks like the English alphabet ‘Y’. The previously four-lane roads have been widened to six lanes in view to ease passenger commute.

The main four-lane flyover runs from ECB Square towards Kalshi and Mirpur DOHS, while a two-lane ramp descends from Kalshi intersection to Kalshi Road.

According to DNCC, the project also includes an extension of a PC girder bridge, the construction of two-foot over-bridges, a public toilet, two police boxes, a 7.40km RCC drain and saucer drain, a 1,755 metre RCC pipe drain, a retaining wall, 3,383-metre communication duct, 8,00,000 linear metre sand compaction pile, separate cycle lane, and six bus bays.

The project is expected to ease travel among the areas of Mirpur, Mirpur DOHS, Pallabi, Kalshi, Mahakhali, Banani, Uttara and Airport.