The government has decided to award the second package of the integrated Maghbazar-Mouchak flyover project to MCCC- Toma JV Ltd to construct a total of 3,937 km four-lane road project to ease gridlock at eight intersections of the Dhaka city, official sources said.
The project proposal of the local government division will be placed to the cabinet committee on public purchase, a senior local government official told the Dhaka Tribune on Monday.
The official also said MCCC- Toma JV ltd has been selected from seven companies that participated in the second tender.
Local Government Division Secretary Abu Alam Md Shahid Khan told the Dhaka Tribune, “We don’t know when the second package work on the Maghbazar–Mouchak flyover will start. There is no master-plan for the Dhaka city.”
Design of the second package will be finalised after digging the ground of the project route as there are water, sewerage, electricity and gas lines crisscrossed haphazardly under the ground, he pointed out.
The secretary also said his division has not yet evaluated the existing work of the Maghbazar –Mouchak flyover.
As per the local government ministry proposal, the cost of the second package work will be Tk3.43bn (Tk343.70 cr) and the Saudi Development Fund (SDF) has already endorsed the selection of the MCCC-Toma JV ltd.
Under the second package, a wing of the flyover will go from Rampura Chowdhurypara to Mouchak intersection via to Malibagh rail crossing and will be extended to Rajarbagh policeline, while another wing will run up to Shantinagar crossing.
Seven firms that vied for the second package are Sichuan road and Bridge corporation Limited , TEC-AML JV , Monem, Gammon-Spectra JV Gammon House, Veer Savarkar Marg , Prabhadevi India , Simplex-Navana JV , Samwhan-Mir Akhter Joint Venture Erectors House , MBEC-PBL JV, PBL Tower and MCCC-Toma JV Ltd.
Earlier, the government approved the proposals of the two packages W4 and W6 while W5 package was not approved as construction firms failed to meet technical requirements.
Construction work on the integrated Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover project began in August this year, following some readjustments that were made in the design of the 8.25-km structure only to keep the underground utility infrastructures unaffected.
The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) is the main financier for the project.
