Hossen Sohel: The government has undertaken a project to build a tunnel under the busy Airport Road aimed at averting casualties.
The tunnel will be built close to the July 29 accident site outside Kurmitola General Hospital, reports The Financial Express.
The move was made following the death of two students of Shaheed Ramizuddin Cantonment School and College in a road crash.
Official sources said road transport and bridges ministry will commission Bangladesh Army’s engineering brigade to do the Tk 490-million job.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will lay the foundation stone of the underpass aimed at averting accidents while crossing the busy road, they added.
The thoroughfare is connected with north and north-east and western districts.