Dhaka Elevated Expressway is Bangladesh's first elevated expressway project,[1] which will connect the Shahjalal airport with Kutubkhali via Mohakhali, Tejgaon and Kamalapur of Dhaka, Bangladesh.[2] It is one of the largest infrastructure projects taken up by the incumbent government to ease traffic congestion in the capital.[3] It will be 46.73 km (153,300 ft) [4] long including the connecting roads and will cost around ৳122 billion (US$1.3 billion).[2]
Dhaka Elevated Expressway
Dhaka Elevated Expressway under construction. 15 January 2022
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina 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.[2] 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-19Global 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.[5]
^"Dhaka Expressway: Now Chinese firm on the scene".
^. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
^"এলিভেটেডে এক্সপ্রেসওয়ের শ্রমিক বিক্ষোভ: হেনস্তার শিকার সময় টিভির সাংবাদিক" [Elevated expressway workers strike: TV journalist harassed]. Somoy TV (in Bengali). 20 September 2022. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
January 02, 2023
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