PM Hasina opens Mirpur-Kalshi flyover

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday inaugurated the Mirpur-Kalshi flyover for vehicular movement at a functtion at Kalshi intersection near Balurmath in the city.

The 2.34km flyover is expected to ease commuting from and to Mirpur, Pallabi, Mirpur DOHS, Uttara and Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

The flyover has been built under the Road Widening and Development Project from ECB Square to Mirpur and the Construction of Flyover on Kalshi Circle Project, which got ECNEC approval on January 9, 2018.

It also widened the 3.70-km stretch of road from the ECB square to Kalshi.

The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and the Bangladesh Army (24 Engineer Construction Brigade) executed the project at a cost of around Tk 1,012 crore.

According to the project details, the flyover looks like an English alphabet ‘Y’.

The previously four-lane roads have been widened to six-lane 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.

The project also includes extension of a PC girder bridge, construction of two foot overbridges, a public toilet, two police boxes, a 7.40-kilometre RCC drain and saucer drain, a 1755-metre RCC pipe drain, retaining wall, 3383-metre communication duct, 8 lakh-linear metre sand compaction pile, separate cycle lane, and six bus bays.

On her arrival at the venue, the PM was welcomed by LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Md Tazul Islam, Dhaka north city Mayor Md Atiqul Islam, Chief of Army Staff General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed, Dhaka-16 MP Md Elias Uddin Mollah, Local Government Division Secretary Muhammad Ibrahim.