ISLAMABAD: National Highway Authority (NHA) was committed to expand the present road facilities and modernize this network to keep up with growing needs of the transport.
An official of NHA told APP that Pakistan's present leadership has made development of an integrated road network one of its top most priorities and game-changer projects like China-Pak Economic Corridor (CPEC) and Peshawar-Karachi Motorway are parts of the same effort.
The authority,he said,has been developing infrastructure projects through private sector on the Build Own Operate (BOO) and Build Operate Transfer (BOT) basis.
For the first time in Pakistan's history, three Build Operate Transfer projects costing Rs 91 billion have been rewarded which will generate Rs 366 billion over the concession period.
He said that CPEC is the name of building roads from Khunjerab to Gwadar. A number of sections of this mega project,he said, have been completed and remaining sections are under construction.
The 784 Km segment from Khunjerab to Burhan consists of Karakoram Highway (KKH), out of which 335 Km from Khunjerab to Raikot has already been upgraded. Remaining from Raikot to Islamabad is divided into three sub sections i.e. Raikot-Thakot, Thakot- Havelian and Havelian-Islamabad.
Construction work on 120 Km Thakot-Havelian section of Hazara Motorway has started after its ground breaking on Thursday. He said 59 Km Burhan-Havelian of Hazara Motorway is being built and will be completed by end 2017, at cost of Rs. 34 billion.
Such projects act as guarantors of economic and social well- being while boosting employment, reducing cost of accessing markets, providing means of improved opportunities and ensuring the provision of basic services at the grassroots level, he said.
Further, he said the construction of Karachi-Hyderabad motorway will start in the last week of December while ground breaking of motorway E-35 (Burhan-Havelian) will be done in the last week of November.
He said that during past three years the NHA has completed 58 km Multan- Khanewal Motorway which cost Rs. 14 Billion,150 km Qila Saifullah-Zhob Highway which cost Rs. 8.3 Billion,68 km Sukkur- Jacababaad which cost Rs. 8.5 billion.
Moreover he said that the NHA also completed Rs 10.3 billion Faisalabad-Gojra section of Motorway which has the total length of 58 Km,384 km Raikot-Khunjerab which cost 490 Million Dollar, 64 km WaighumRud-Khjuri road at the cost of Rs. 13 Billion,7.6 km Peshawar Northern Bypass (Package-I) which cost Rs. 22 Billion.
Other projects completed during past three years include 41.5 km Babusar Top-Chilas Road which cost Rs 16 Billion,3.6 km Khushalgarh Bridge/Access Roads which cost Rs. 12 Billion, Earthquake Memorial Bridge, Muzaffarabad which cost Rs 15 Billion and 193 km Gawadar-Turbat-Hoshab Highway which Rs. 13 Billion.
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