Chattogram by-pass road to open shortly
Chattogram Bureau :
Despite repeated time extension for implementation of the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway-Bayezid Bostami By-pass Road, the Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) is still far away from completion of the project.
CDA now expects to complete the project by December 2019, three years later than the schedule. Project Director (PD) Engineer Rajiv Das, however, said they will open the bypass road to traffic in May. But finishing some related works will take another six-seven months to December.
The bypass road construction was delayed due to obstruction of the Department of Environment in cutting hill on the project site, CDA officials said. Another obstacle was construction of a loop road near the campus of Asian University for Women (AUW) from the bypass road. But, the AUW campus is quite away from the bypass road, which will not hamper its academic environment anyway, they also said.
For these reasons the project work was suspended for more than six months. However, these issues were resolved four months ago at the instructions of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), they added. The project expenditure will not increase despite delay in its implementation. No extra component has been added to the project, and there is no change in its expenditure, the PD confirmed.
The project was scheduled to be completed by December 2016. For different reasons, its completion time was extended to December 2018 and later to December 2019, he added.
CDA took up the six-kilometre Bayezid Bostami Bypass Road project in 2013 at a cost of Tk 320 million.
The road will be a part of the CDA Outer Ring Road, connecting Shah Amanat Road, Oxygen-Kuaish Road and Bayezid Bostami Road with Dhaka-Chattogram Highway.
Despite repeated time extension for implementation of the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway-Bayezid Bostami By-pass Road, the Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) is still far away from completion of the project.
CDA now expects to complete the project by December 2019, three years later than the schedule. Project Director (PD) Engineer Rajiv Das, however, said they will open the bypass road to traffic in May. But finishing some related works will take another six-seven months to December.
The bypass road construction was delayed due to obstruction of the Department of Environment in cutting hill on the project site, CDA officials said. Another obstacle was construction of a loop road near the campus of Asian University for Women (AUW) from the bypass road. But, the AUW campus is quite away from the bypass road, which will not hamper its academic environment anyway, they also said.
For these reasons the project work was suspended for more than six months. However, these issues were resolved four months ago at the instructions of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), they added. The project expenditure will not increase despite delay in its implementation. No extra component has been added to the project, and there is no change in its expenditure, the PD confirmed.
The project was scheduled to be completed by December 2016. For different reasons, its completion time was extended to December 2018 and later to December 2019, he added.
CDA took up the six-kilometre Bayezid Bostami Bypass Road project in 2013 at a cost of Tk 320 million.
The road will be a part of the CDA Outer Ring Road, connecting Shah Amanat Road, Oxygen-Kuaish Road and Bayezid Bostami Road with Dhaka-Chattogram Highway.