Communications Minister Nazmul Huda yesterday visited the flyover site and expressed satisfaction with the progress of work. More than 95 percent of the work has been completed and the Roads and Highways Department is now giving the final touch to the flyover, communications ministry officials said.

During his visit to the flyover, Huda was told that the rest of the work including infrastructural development, bitumen carpeting, approach roads, lightening and beautification would be complete in July.

The flyover is being constructed at a cost of Tk 113.52 crore with the financial help of the World Bank under Dhaka Urban Transport Project (DUTP). First Metalargical Construction Company of China constructed the 17.9-metre wide and 1.12-km long bridge.

The flyover will have four lanes on each direction and is expected to ease traffic congestion at the busy Mohakhali intersection.

The construction of the flyover started in December 2001 and was scheduled to end in June this year. But the work was delayed by three months mainly because of installation of a shock absorption system to withstand earthquake. The installation of Shock Transmission Unit (STU) will be complete in September.

Another flyover in Khilgaon is still under construction.