Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated a portion of the Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover in Dhaka.
Though construction work on the project is incomplete, the 2.11 kilometre stretch from Satrasta intersection to Holy Family Hospital – a fifth of the flyover’s total length – was opened for traffic on Wednesday morning after the inauguration ceremony at Officers’ Club in the capital.
It was estimated to cost Tk343.70 crore when the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) approved it in 2011. The cost then more than doubled to Tk772.77 crore and then skyrocketed to Tk1,218.89 crore. The prime minister laid the foundation stone of the project on February 16, 2013.
Although the flyover was expected to be completed by July 2014, it is now scheduled to be ready by December 2016.
The under-construction flyover is being built in three parts.
One part is the 2.11 kilometre stretch from Satrasta to Ramna police station. The second part, which runs from Eskaton to Mouchak, is 86% complete. The third part from Rampura to Shantinagar, via Malibagh and Rajarbagh police lines, is only 47% complete.