Dhaka, Apr 9 (UNB) - The under-construction Gulistan-Jatrabari Flyover, also known as Mayor Mohammad Hanif Flyover, will be ready for vehicular movement by December 16, much ahead of the schedule.

“The construction work on the project will be completed by December 16 and the Prime Minister is expected to inaugurate it during the victory month,” State Minister for LGRD and Cooperatives Jahangir Kabir Nanak told reporters after a project evaluation meeting at the Secretariat on Monday.

Nanak finds removal of utility services lines of Wasa, Titas Gas, DPDC and BTCL as major barriers to quick completion of the project, and said those to be removed by June 15.

Project Director Ashiqur Rahman said around 50 percent of the work has been completed so far.

The construction work on the 10-km flyover, stretched from Dhaka-Chittagong Highway towards Polassey through Gulistan and Kaptan Bazar, started on June 22, 2010.

The project, being constructed under PPP (public private partnership), is originally scheduled to be completed by June 2013. The Dhaka City Corporation (South) is the implementing agency of the project.

Local government secretary Abu Alam Mohammad Shahid Khan and representatives from Wasa, Titas Gas, DPDC and BTCL were present at the meeting chaired by the State Minister for LGRD and Cooperatives.