Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover opens

The last part of the Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover across Kakrail-Malibagh, Rajarbagh-Mouchak, Rampura-Mouchak and Mouchak-Eskaton areas of the capital was opened to traffic on Thursday.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the 8.7 kilometer flyover via a video conference from her Ganabhaban residence.
During the inauguration
through a simple function, the Prime Minister hoped that it would ease the nagging traffic congestions in the capital.
Minister for LGRD and Cooperatives Khandker Mosharraf Hossain gave the welcome speech, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, and Saad Al Qahtani, head of Islami Division of Royal Saudi Embassy in Dhaka, were also present on the occasion while Prime Minister's Principal Secretary Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury conducted the programme.
After inauguration of the flyover the Prime Minister exchanged views with local representatives as well as political leaders, including Civil Aviation Minister Rashed Khan Menon, Saber Hossain Chowdhury, Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sayeed Khokon, acting mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation Osman Gani and DMP Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia.
Aiming to ease traffic in one of the city's busiest areas, Moghbazar-Mouchak Flyover Project began in January 2013 with a deadline to complete it by June 2015. On January 19 in 2016, the project timeframe was extended by another 18 months till June 2017 as its length had been extended.
On March 30 last year, the Prime Minister inaugurated the first part, stretching over two kilometers from Holy Family Hospital to Saatrasta intersection.
The LGRD Minister inaugurated the one-km portion, Eskaton to Moghbazar Wireless Gate, on September 15 in 2016 and the 450-meter long part, Hatirjheel to Sonargaon intersection, on May 17 this year.
According to officials, a total of Tk 1,218 crore has been spent on the construction of the flyover.
Earlier, at the same venue, the Prime Minister laid the foundation stone of the first-ever rental-based flat construction project for slum-dwellers in city's Mirpur, the first-ever residential flat construction project on the abandoned houses at Dhanmondi and Mohammadpur.
With a view to developing planned housing for all, the government is constructing 10,000 flats for slum-dwellers at Mirpur Section-11 as well as 202 residential flats for the government officials and common people at Dhanmondi and Mohammadpur in the capital. The National Housing Authority (NHA) is materalising the projects from its own fund.
In the first phase of the scheme, 533 flats in five 14-storey buildings on two acres of land would be constructed, while 9,467 flats in eighty 14-storey apartments on eight acres of land would be built in the second phase.
The first phase of the project will be implemented at a cost of about Tk 111 crore.
Meanwhile, the NHA will construct 253 flats on 2.07 acres of land at Dhanmondi and Mohammadpur at a cost of Tk 373 crore. Of the flats, 202 would be sold among government officials and common people, while remaining 51 flats would be handed over to the NHA.