These remarks were made by the Road Transport Minister Obaidul Quader while addressing the press during a project visit on Wednesday. "It will be finished by September 2021, he told reporters after visiting the project site at Kawla, adjacent to Dhaka airport," he added. The 20km Dhaka Elevated Expressway has a budget of Tk8,940.18 crore. It will start from Shahjalal Airport and end at Kutubkhali on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway via Kuril-Banani-Mohakhali-Tejgaon-Moghbazar-Kamalapur-Sayedabad-Jatrabari. PPP Project Director AHM Shakhawat Akhtar, Sakasith Swanagar, manager of Italian Thai Development Public Company Limited and other officials were also present during the project visit.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 13, 2019 11:15 UTC