PM inaugurates five dev projects in Ctg tomorrow

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of five development projects tomorrow in Chittagong.

She will also inaugurate the country's tallest "mural of Bangabandhu", installed in Quaish area of Chittagong city on the same day informed Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) chairman, Abdus Salam.

CDA constructed two murals at both ends of the Oxygen-Quaish road (now renamed as Bangabandhu Avenue) with a cost of about Tk 1.20 crore.

The height of the triangular mural is about 42 feet while the other one, installed at Oxygen point, is about 26 feet, said deputy chief town planner Shahinul Islam Khan.

The construction of the murals began on January last year, he added.

The projects that the prime minister will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone are Kadamtoli Flyover, constructed at the cost of about Tk 58 crore, 5.5-km-long Bangabandhu Avenue, expanded and developed with a budget of about Tk 45 crore, construction of Link Road from Dhaka Trunk Road to Baizid Bostami road including Loop Road at the outer periphery of Asian University for Women, with a budget of about Tk 172 crore, construction of Chittagong City Outer Ring road costing about Tk 1,700 crore and construction of the Elevated Express Way from city's Lalkhan Bazar area to Shah Amanat International Airport with an estimated budget of Tk 3,000 crore, informed CDA chairman.

All the preparations had already been completed and awaits inauguration, he added.