<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated the Mirpur-Kalshi flyover to vehicular movement. The flyover has been constructed to ease commute in Mirpur, Mirpur DOHS, Pallabi, Kalshi, Mahakhali, Banani, Uttara and Dhaka airport.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prime minister opened the flyover to traffic from a function at Kalshi intersection, adjoining Balur Math, in Dhaka.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 2,335m 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.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Under the project, 3.70km stretch of road from the ECB square to Kalshi was also widened.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and the Bangladesh Army (24 Engineer Construction Brigade) implemented the project at a cost of around Tk 1,012 crore.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the project details, the flyover looks like the English alphabet ‘Y’.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The previously four-lane roads have been widened to six lanes to ease commute.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The main four-lane flyover runs from ECB square towards Kalshi and Mirpur DOHS, while a two-lane ramp descends from Kalshi intersection to Kalshi Road.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The project also includes extension of a PC girder bridge, construction of two foot bridges, a public toilet, two police boxes, a 7.40 km RCC drain and saucer drain, a 1755m RCC pipe drain, retaining wall, 3383m communication duct, 8 lakh-linear metre sand compaction pile, separate cycle lane, and six bus bays.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On her arrival at the venue, LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Md Tazul Islam, Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Md Atiqul Islam, Chief of Army Staff General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed, Dhaka-16 MP Md Elias Uddin Mollah, and Local Government Division Secretary Muhammad Ibrahim welcomed her. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>