Dhaka Elevated Expressway is
Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mo ...
's first elevated
expressway project,
which will connect the
Shahjalal airport with Kutubkhali via
Mohakhali Mohakhali is a neighborhood of Dhaka city, the capital of Bangladesh.
Events
Korail Slum
The Korea Railroad Corporation ( Korean: 한국철도공사, Hanja: ), branded as KORAIL (코레일, officially changed to in November 2019), is t ...
, Tejgaon and
Kamalapur of
Dhaka
Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), List of renamed places in Bangladesh, formerly known as Dacca, is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Bangladesh, largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest ...
, Bangladesh.
It is one of the largest infrastructure projects taken up by the incumbent government to ease traffic congestion in the capital. It will be long including the connecting roads and will cost around .
Contracts for the expressway
The
Italian-Thai Development
The Italian-Thai Development Public Company Limited ( th, บริษัท อิตาเลียนไทย ดีเวล๊อปเมนต์ จำกัด (มหาชน)) was formed on 15 August 1958 as the "Italian-Thai Corpora ...
Corporation Limited has entered a $1.062 billion
contract with
China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) for building the Dhaka Elevated Expressway.
Developments
Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina
Sheikh Hasina Wazed (''née'' Sheikh Hasina ; ; bn, শেখ হাসিনা ওয়াজেদ, Shēkh Hasinā, , born 28 September 1947) is a Bangladeshi politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh since January 2 ...
inaugurated construction of the 21 km expressway on April 30, 2011, with a hope that it will be completed in three and a half years.
However, it has not been completed as of 2022. It is expected that the project might be completed by late 2023 (might be delayed to 2024 or even later because of the
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease quick ...
Global Pandemic)
Controversy
On September 20, 2022, Elevated Expressway workers staged an agitation in
Tejgaon area to protest the arrears and torture. When a reporter from
Somoy News went to cover the protest, China Railway Construction Corporation officials locked the reporter in a room, pressured him to delete footage of the protest, and offered a bribe. Later the police came and rescued the reporter.
See Also
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List of roads in Bangladesh
The road network of Bangladesh consists of national highways (designated by a number preceded by "N"), regional highways (R numbers) and zilla or district roads (Z numbers) which are maintained by Roads and Highways Department, as well as Upazi ...
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List of megaprojects in Bangladesh
References
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Transport in Dhaka
Expressways in Bangladesh
Roads in Dhaka