At least a decade’s wait is about to end soon for harried commuters, especially those who have to catch their flights at Dum Dum, as a major portion of the flyover from Parama Island on EM Bypass to Park Circus is ready for use.

The state government announced on Saturday that chief minister Mamata Banerjee would inaugurate the flyover on 10 October. State urban development minister Firad Hakim today said that work is almost complete and the flyover would be commissioned well before the festive season to ease traffic congestion to and from the city airport.

Considered to be the city’s longest flyover measuring 8.14 km, the Parama-Park Circus flyover was conceptualised way back in 2003 but work began in 2010 at a cost of Rs.330 crore. The flyover was supposed to complete in 30 months but the work was held up for a number of reasons, chief among which were difficulty in clearing encroachments, the logistics of interim traffic management and cost overrun. As a result of the delayed start the deadline was extended to 31 August 2012. Later the flyover missed several deadlines. Finally the Calcutta High Court had fixed July 2015 as the deadline for the main portion of the flyover — from Spring Club on the Bypass till the Park Circus Seven-Point crossing. But even this deadline was missed.

For the second phase of the project, the court’s deadline was July 2016.

This part of the structure would include two arms running above Congress Exhibition Road and Nasiruddin Road before merging with the AJC Bose Road flyover.

Sources at Nabanna said Miss Banerjee wanted to present the flyover as a Puja gift to the citizens as well as project it as an important achievement before the 2016 Assembly polls.