Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday laid the foundation stone of an underpass at a road adjacent to Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment School and College in Dhaka city.
The underpass will be built as per the Prime Minister's commitment she made after two students of the college were killed in a recent road crash.
Bangladesh Army will implement the project.
On July 29, Diya Khanam Mim and Abdul Karim Rajib, first-year students of the college, were killed as a bus ploughed into some students in front of Kurmitola General Hospital on Airport Road in the capital, UNB reported.
The family members of the two students and the principal of the college met the Prime Minister on August 2.
During the meeting, Sheikh Hasina promised to construct an underpass nearby the Ramiz Uddin College and provide five buses for its students. On August 4, the Prime Minister provided the five buses.
