UNB, Dhaka :
Having been prone to delays, the Moghbazar-Mouchak Flyover irritating project is likely to get extension by another 18 months to June 2017, with a fresh proposal of raising the overall project cost by another Tk 446.20 crore to Tk 1218.90 crore.
A proposal in this regard was placed at a project evaluation committee meeting held at the Planning Commission recently, said a Planning Commission official. The Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover project office put forward a proposal seeking extension of its deadline and increasing the length of the flyover.
At the evaluation committee meeting, a proposal was placed to extend the deadline till June, 2017 from December, 2015 to complete the flyover project.
As of June 2015, the project witnessed about 49.47 percent financial progress with Tk 382.30 crore being spent since the Local Government and Engineering Department started the work in February 2013.
The project work, which was scheduled to be completed within December 2015, started in 2013 instead of the original schedule in 2011. The official said the project office proposed to increase the project cost from Tk 772.70 crore to Tk 1,218.8969 crore due to increased construction cost.
The 8.25-kilometre flyover is being constructed in three parts- from Holy Family Hospital to Tejgaon, from Kakrail to Rampura and from Mouchak to Banglamotor-to ease traffic congestion between the capital’s north and south parts. Following a verbal directive from the Prime Minister’s Office, a proposal was given to extend the flyover from FDC gate to Hotel Sonargaon on Tejgaon-Panthapath link road by 450 metres which will make the flyover 8.70km long one as well as facilitate vehicular movement over the Sonargaon level crossing.
Construction of the extended 450-metre flyover will cost Tk 85 crore. The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) and OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) have already agreed to increase the amount of the project aid by $ 15 million and $ 6 million respectively.
Activities of the revised project include construction of the flyover, acquiring some 3,843.7 square metres of infrastructure and 40 decimal lands and purchase of two double-cabin pickups, three laptops and one desktop computer. Another official at the Planning Commission said the project’s cost and deadline were proposed to be increased because of huge presence of pipelines of different utility services, including 132KV high-voltage electric lines, gas pipelines, water pipe lines, storm waterlines, sewerage lines, BTCL cables and fiber optic cables. He, however, said Pot Bearing and Shock Transmission Unit will be installed in the flyover so that it can tolerate earthquake following advice of Buet experts.
Australian firm SMEC International and its three local associates ACE Consultants Limited, SARM Associates Limited and Kranti Associates Limited are working as consultants of the project.
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) first approved the project on March 8, 2011 involving Tk 772.70 crore.
Having been prone to delays, the Moghbazar-Mouchak Flyover irritating project is likely to get extension by another 18 months to June 2017, with a fresh proposal of raising the overall project cost by another Tk 446.20 crore to Tk 1218.90 crore.
A proposal in this regard was placed at a project evaluation committee meeting held at the Planning Commission recently, said a Planning Commission official. The Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover project office put forward a proposal seeking extension of its deadline and increasing the length of the flyover.
At the evaluation committee meeting, a proposal was placed to extend the deadline till June, 2017 from December, 2015 to complete the flyover project.
As of June 2015, the project witnessed about 49.47 percent financial progress with Tk 382.30 crore being spent since the Local Government and Engineering Department started the work in February 2013.
The project work, which was scheduled to be completed within December 2015, started in 2013 instead of the original schedule in 2011. The official said the project office proposed to increase the project cost from Tk 772.70 crore to Tk 1,218.8969 crore due to increased construction cost.
The 8.25-kilometre flyover is being constructed in three parts- from Holy Family Hospital to Tejgaon, from Kakrail to Rampura and from Mouchak to Banglamotor-to ease traffic congestion between the capital’s north and south parts. Following a verbal directive from the Prime Minister’s Office, a proposal was given to extend the flyover from FDC gate to Hotel Sonargaon on Tejgaon-Panthapath link road by 450 metres which will make the flyover 8.70km long one as well as facilitate vehicular movement over the Sonargaon level crossing.
Construction of the extended 450-metre flyover will cost Tk 85 crore. The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) and OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) have already agreed to increase the amount of the project aid by $ 15 million and $ 6 million respectively.
Activities of the revised project include construction of the flyover, acquiring some 3,843.7 square metres of infrastructure and 40 decimal lands and purchase of two double-cabin pickups, three laptops and one desktop computer. Another official at the Planning Commission said the project’s cost and deadline were proposed to be increased because of huge presence of pipelines of different utility services, including 132KV high-voltage electric lines, gas pipelines, water pipe lines, storm waterlines, sewerage lines, BTCL cables and fiber optic cables. He, however, said Pot Bearing and Shock Transmission Unit will be installed in the flyover so that it can tolerate earthquake following advice of Buet experts.
Australian firm SMEC International and its three local associates ACE Consultants Limited, SARM Associates Limited and Kranti Associates Limited are working as consultants of the project.
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) first approved the project on March 8, 2011 involving Tk 772.70 crore.
