ISLAMABAD: National Highway Authority (NHA) is intending to build 216 kilometre Gilgit-Shandoor road in near future.
An official of NHA told APP on Friday that the project would form part of Gilgit-Shandoor-Chitral road which would provide an alternate route to China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
He said that detail design and feasibility study of the Shandoor-Chitral section had been completed while pre-feasibility study for Gilgit-Shandoor section had been completed.
He said that the NHA was hiring services of a consultant/engineering organization/ firm to carry out feasibility study and preliminary design of the project.
The official said that new road would be an all-weather road and would also provide an alternative route to CPEC during the winter season when the Silk route is closed due to snowfall.
With it, people of the country would easily travel to Chitral throughout the year.
After Lowari Tunnel the new project will be another best possible route for travelling to the region and will save travel time as well.The estimated cost of 345 kilometre long road is Rs 45 billion.
The designed speed on the two-lane road would be 40 kilometre per hour.The road will have 30 bridges and 1283 culverts including 48 pipe culverts and 212 box culverts.
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