The much-awaited four-lane Dhaka-Chittagong Highway will open before the Eid-ul-Fitr to be celebrated early next month.
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said on Monday that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would inaugurate the 192-km highway on July 2.”We’re offering this (highway) to people as an Eid gift from the prime minister,” he told reporters while inspecting the project work at Chittagong’s Bhatiary section in chittagong on Monday. The minister said most of the project work, sanctioned in 2005, has been completed.
the minister said the work on the 225-kilometre Dhaka-Chittagong expressway would begin late next year.
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council had approved the four-lane Dhaka-Chittagong Highway project on Dec 26, 2005 and work began in January the following year.
The highway was due for completion in June 2012 but the deadline was extended thrice.
