Dhaka Elevated Expressway Dhaka Elevated Expressway Dhaka Elevated Expressway is Bangladesh's first elevated expressway project, which will connect the Shahjalal airport with Kutubkhali via Mohakhali, Tejgaon and Kamalapur of Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is one of the largest infrastructure projects taken up by the incumbent government to ease traffic congestion in the capital. It will be long including the connecting roads and will cost around . From Bangladesh Economic Review:2016-17 The contract agreement has been signed with ‘Italian-Thai Development Public Company Limited’ on 15 December 2013 to construct the 46.73 km (with ramp) long Dhaka elevated expressway at the cost of from Hazrat Shahjalal
History of Dhaka in 1912 under the substantial grants and patronage from Dhaka Nawab Family. Following the Partition of India in August 1947, Dhaka became the capital of East Bengal under the Dominion of Pakistan. The city witnessed serious communal violence that left thousands of people dead. A large proportion of the city's Hindu population departed for India, while the city received hundreds of thousands of Muslim immigrants from the Indian states of West Bengal, Assam and Bihar. Population increased from 335,925 in 1951 to 556,712 in 1961 registering an increase of 65.7 percent. As the centre of regional politics, Dhaka saw an