PM opens Kalshi flyover today

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the Mirpur-Kalshi flyover today (Sunday) for vehicular movement to ease travel in Mirpur, Mirpur DOHS, Pallabi, Kalshi, Mahakhali, Banani, Uttara and Airport areas, reports UNB.
The Prime Minister will inaugurate the vehicular movement from a function at the Kalshi intersection adjoining Balur Math in the city at 10am.
The 2,335-metre-long 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 10.12 billion (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 the ECB square towards Kalshi and Mirpur DOHS, while a two-lane ramp descends from the 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.
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 are expected to join the inaugural ceremony.