Build Mohakhali-Rokeya Sharani underpass
Suggests JS body
A parliamentary committee has suggested construction of an underpass from the Shaheen School point of Mohakhali Flyover to Rokeya Sharani to reduce traffic congestion at the point.
The recommendation came at a meeting of the parliamentary standing committee on the housing ministry held at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban yesterday.
The House watchdog also stressed the need for taking time befitting and realistic measures through holding inter-ministerial meeting to resolve traffic congestion and other civic problems.
Enamul Haque, a member of the committee, told this to The Daily Star after the meeting.
Officials of the defence ministry and civil aviation and tourism ministry told the meeting that there is no height restrictions in constructing buildings in Gulshan 1 and 2, Banani and Mohakhali areas for Tejgaon Airport in the city.
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) misguided the height restrictions on constructing buildings in the areas on the pretext of Tejgaon Airport where only helicopter lands, said Haque, also a ruling Awami League MP.
He said defence ministry and civil aviation and tourism ministry also expressed the same view in the meeting to this end, Haque added.
The committee asked Rajuk, Air force, civil aviation authority and civil aviation ministry to work together to draw zones marking height restrictions for Tejgaon and Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport within next one month, said sources at the committee.
On construction of the underpass, Enamul Haque said the ministry in principle agreed the committee's recommendations.
The proposed underpass will greatly help reduce traffic tailback at the point, said several members of the standing committee.
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