CHATTOGRAM, Jan 3, 2025 (BSS)- Seventeen-kilometre first elevated expressway of the port city has been named after Wasim Akram, first martyr of July uprising in Chattogram.

Housing and Public Works Adviser Adilur Rahman Khan ceremonially opened the plaque of the expressway at Patenga point along with inaugurating the toll plaza this morning.

Addressing the function the public works adviser said the government has taken decision to rename different government installations across the country after the July uprising martyrs to keep their memories alive in the national history.
 
Wasim Akram, a brilliant Jatiyatabadi Chattra Dal (JCD) leader embraced martyrdom along with two others when police, Jubo League and Chattra League armed cadres fired indiscriminately on a rally organized by Anti-discrimination Student Movement on July 16, 2024 at Sholoshahar in the city.

Adviser Adilur Rahman Khan said the Interim Government will continue such initiatives so that present and next generation remember the student-led mass revolution.

“Through such noble initiatives, the government will pay homage to the July Revolution martyrs who sacrificed their lives for reconstructing new Bangladesh” the adviser said.

The expressway built with Taka 4,367 crore has been implemented by Chattogram Development Authority ( CDA) from city’s Lalkhan Bazar to Patenga area.

The expressway will reduce seaport centric traffic congestion side by side cutting the travel time for flight passengers to and from the city. 
  
City Mayor Dr. Shahadat Hossain, Chattogram Development Authority (CDA) Chairman Eng. Nourul Karim, board member Zahidul Karim Kochi and chief engineer Kazi Hasan Bin Shams, among others, were present.

Later, the city mayor and the CDA chairman paid the tolls for their respective vehicles.