Elevated Express.
Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) of Ministry of Communication appointed CCDB for implementation of resettlement activities under DEEP from November, 2014 – October, 2019. This is a Public-Private- Partnership (PPP) between Government of Bangladesh and Italian-Thai Development Public Company Limited. This project will be implemented in three phases namely (i) 1st Tranche (ii) 2nd Tranche and (iii) 3rd Tranche and will cover 21 kilometers.
A total of 220.15 acres of land will be required, of which 28 acres are private lands. Large number of population will be displaced from their houses, businesses, common property resources and affect their income and livelihood sources.
Phase-wise Resettlement Action Plans (RAPs) are being prepared and implemented, to mitigate resettlement impacts and livelihoods’ dislocations, due to Elevated Expressway Project. In the meantime RAP of 1st Tranche is being implemented.