Will make Dhaka a smart city: Bangladesh PM Hasina

DHAKA: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said that her government will make Dhaka a smart city.

"We will build Dhaka as a Smart City," she said while addressing a public rally at Kalshi Balur Math here after opening the flyover and the road unveiling a plaque. After the rally, she took the Kalshi flyover to reach her official Ganabhaban residence in the Capital.

Addressing the rally, the prime minister said that 2.34 km Kalshi flyover and 3.70 km widened and developed six-lane road from the ECB square would ease the commutation in Mirpur, DOHS, Pallabi, Kalshi, Mahakhali, Manikdi, Matikata, Bhashantek, Banani, Uttara and the Airport. She said 16 projects worth over Tk 3000 crore have also been implemented in Dhaka South City Corporation over the years.

With the opening of the Kalshi Flyover and the six-lane road following the metro rail, traffic jam in Dhaka will reduce, she hoped. For the development of Dhaka North City, as many as 23 projects involving TK 3,500 crore have been implemented in the last 12 years since Dhaka city was divided into two parts in 2011, Hasina said.

At the rally, she also announced to rename the Kalshi flyover after Harun Mollah due to his glorious contribution to the Liberation War and all the democratic and progressive movements of the country. At the function, the prime minister announced to build Kalshi Balur Math as an amusement park with a playground for the children and youths and walkways for the movement of the aged persons.

Hasina, also President of the ruling party Awami League, said her government would strengthen democracy. Referring to vote rigging by the BNP-Jamaat alliance in February 15, 1996 election, she said the people of the country dislodged them from the power within one-and-a-half month. "The people of the country never accepted those who came to power through vote rigging," she said. IANS

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